| We Write no Fights of Dutch or French, Tune is, My Dog and I : 
        Or, Bobbing Ione.  
 
 
        I of no dogged nature am,   I liv'd at home, I liv'd at large,   I lov'd a maid her name was
        Nell,   My Dog and I have got a trick,   But if the weather prove foul and wet,      
        If the Green-ƒickneƒs have po¤e¥,  
        If Women are in a di¥reƒs,  
        From fifteen until fifty I,  
        When Mars commaded, we did go,  
        There was a time when Rebel rout,  
        We night and day do take no re¥,  
        My living lies in every Nook,  
        My Dog to play the Pimp is taught,  
        Thus have we liv'd, thus have we lov'd,  
        If death do come as it may hap,  F I N I S 
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| The ballad "My Dog and I," according to Donald Wing, was printed in London in 1675. It was set in four columns on a single sheet, with a decorative border between each pair of columns (see facsimile). The original is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; see 4o Rawl. 566(108) in the new Allegro Catalogue of Ballads (external new windows). A reproduction is available on microfilm in Early English Books, 1641-1700, 1765:19. Indexed as Wing M3168A and ESTC R214289. A reprint by John White in Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been tentatively dated by the ESTC to 1750 (ESTC T41661 and T41662); it could date from as early as 1700. See Douce Ballads 3(67a) in the Allegro Catalogue of Ballads (external new windows). 
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