Show and joan darby daiby ad and joan were an old fash cloned conservative married couple famous for their long life and domestic felicity lacity they are said to have lived booro no than a century ago in heal baugh a village in the west riding hiding of 0 borit e darby and joan are the hero here and heroine or of a ballad called the harry old couple ot of uncertain authorship r ascribed to prior or according to however the author was henry and the tha originals john darby printer ot of bartholomew close who died in 1730 and ills wife joan was tin an apprentice in tile the service ot of darby |