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• The loyal lovers garland near to Bristol Town. In three parts : I. Shewing, how a rich merchant daughter fell in love with a young sailor. II. How her father sent orders to have him kill'd; likewise how she went in pursuit of her love, and how she had the happiness to find him; with their return to England. III. How they went in disguise to he[r] father's house, and what discourse they had with the old man, and how at last they made themselves known to her father: with the happy conclusion of their marriage, to the great joy and content of both parties. To which is added. the taking of Guardaloop
  Published: (1746)
• The King of Bohemia: or, The Royal Courtly garland. In six parts : [I.] How the King of Bohemia having married a most virtuous Queen, and being afterwards visited by a foreign prince, of whom the King became jealous, and hired his cup-bearer to poyson him: the Prince being acquainted of it, went to his own country, and was soon after crowned there. [II.] How the King put his wife in prison, where she was delivered of a daughter, which was by the King's order put in a boat, and left to the mercy of the sea. [III.] How the King in a vision being assured of his wife's innocency, released her, who soon after died with grief. [IV.] How the child was drove into that country where the Prince reign'd, took up by a shepherd, and kept as his own. [V.] How the King's son fell in love with her, and imbarked with her, and the old shepherd for Italy. [V.] Being by a storm drove into Bohemia, were confin'd, and how the King thereof knew she was his daughter
  Published: (1760)
• The Miller and she ass : I. Shewing how a poor miller out-witted his landlord who had a great desire to lie with his wife, proffering forgive him two years rent that he owed, and to make over the mill to him for his consent. II. How the landlord sent his man to the miller for his wife, under the name of a she-ass. III. How the landlord bid his man to desire the house-keeper, to dress the ass in a smock and pinners, and to put her to bed in the chamber, which was done accordingly; how he came home and went to bed, thinking to embrace the miller's wife, but to his surprize, was kick'd out of bed by the ass; how he turned the ass out of doors, with smock, pinners and all; with the comical humours of the country folks next day with the ass
  Published: (1746)
• The Seaman of Plymouth's garland : In four parts. Part I. William Whitecraft's courtship to Mrs. Susan Cole both of Plymouth; with an account of her sickness, which disappointed the wedding. Part II. The deceitfulness of her parents, who sent her to Holland, because the would not marry a 'squire, and break her former vows. Part III. William's great fortune in optaining riches, with the account of Susan's pretended death, which afterwards he found to be the deceitfulness of her parents, in finding her by good fortune at the Hague. Part. IV. His return to England with his love, with an account of their happy wedding; concluding with the pleasant pastime between the parents and the daughter, while they did not know their child, though in their profence
  Published: (1787)
• The Presumptuous sinner : Or, A dialogue between a noble lord and a poor woodman, concerning the fall of Adam, which brought sin, death, and labour into the world, with an account how the nobleman reproved him for his sharp reflection-to which is added, a agreement made between them, to place the poor man in all the pomps and glories of the world; which he was to enjoy whilst he obstained from one thing commanded. With the poor man's disobedience, which shews the vanity of those that presume to stand by their own strength
  Published: (1768)