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The story is the source of the 17th-century play, The Blind Beggar of Bednal-Green, with the Merry Humour of Tom Strowd the Norfolk Yeoman, originally published in 1659 by John Day after being performed many times.
The story forms the basis of Chettle and Day's The Blind‐Beggar of Bednal‐Green (1600, printed 1659). J. S. Knowles also wrote a comedy called The Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green; and R. Dodsley wrote a musical play, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green.
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It’s of an old beggar who long lost his sight, And had a fair daughter, most peasant and bright; To seek out her fortune, whate’er it may be, This suit it was to pretty Bessie. This maid she was handsome, of beauty most bright, And clad in grey russet and late in the night From father and mother alone parted she, Who sighed and lamented for pretty ...
Oh, there once been an old man who a long time was blind, He reared one only daughter of a low degree. And the first came to court her was a captain from sea, He courted lovely Betsy by night and by day, “For my life, gold or silver, I would give it all to thee, If you tell me your father, my bonny Betsy.” Oh, the next came for to court her was a c...
There was an old beggar who longtime was blind, He had but one daughter, so pretty and fine; “Well, I’ll go seek my fortune, dear father,” said she, The favour was granted to pretty Betsy. They set out from London the very next day, And landed in Romford the very same way. And when that they came to the lordship’s house Invited to enter was pretty ...
The Rarest Ballad That Ever Was Seen is an English broadside ballad from the late 17th century. It tells the story of a blind beggar's daughter from Bednal-Green and her marriage to a knight.
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The rarest Ballad that ever was seen, Of the Blind beggers daughter of Bednall-green. IT was a blind begger that long lost his sight, He had a fair daughter most pleasant and brght. And many a galant brave Suitor had she, For none was so comely as pretty Bessée, And though she was of favour most fair, Yet seeind the was but a b [...] gger his heir,
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3 days ago · The old ballad of "the Beggar of Bethnal Green," written in the reign of Elizabeth, records the popular local legend of the concealment under this disguise of Henry de Montford, son of the redoubtable Earl of Leicester.
