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A mad marriage; or, The female fancy of Debtford Being an account of one Margaret a carpenters wife, (who to salve up the credit of a servant named Mary, who had been dabling with Ch---- Parsons a seaman, who soon after left her and went to sea) dressed her self in mans cloaths and was married to the said Mary, to prevent the shame of a crackt maiden-head. To the tune of, Moggies jealousie

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A ballad about a carpenter's wife who dresses as a man and marries her servant, Mary, to save her from shame.

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