<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The beggars chorus, or, The jovial crew : To an excellent new play-house tune</dc:title><dc:creator>Brome, Richard, -1652?</dc:creator><dc:date>[between 1761 and 1788?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A song from Richard Brome’s comedy ’A joviall crew’.</dc:description><dc:description>Verse - "There was a jovial beggar,".</dc:description><dc:description>The same woodcut (2 figures either side of a mother with children) is used in ESTC T36852 which has a Thomas Saint imprint. The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) suggests Thomas Saint was probably active 1761-1788.</dc:description><dc:description>In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; columns 1 &amp; 2 and columns 3 &amp; 4 are separated by ornamental rules.</dc:description><dc:description>Artist's signature in woodcut: Sculp. J.W.</dc:description><dc:description>Previously identified by Wing as a London imprint with a conjectural date of 1700. Not in Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>