EBBA 21052
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Shepherds Delight. / Both by Day and by Night. / Describing the Shepherds simplicity; And their Felicity: their birth, / and their mirth: their lives, and their wives: their health, and their / wealth: their ways, and their plays: their diet, and quiet. / And how with their Dam'sels they laugh and lye down, / And to each pretty Virgin, they give a green gown. | ||
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| Date Published | 1674-1679 | |
| Author | Thomas Shadwell | |
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| Imprint | Prinetd for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright; and J. Clarke. | |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys | |
| Page | 3.55 | |
| Location | Pepys Library | |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 3.55 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The Shepherds Delight. / Both by Day and by Night. / Describing the Shepherds simplicity; And their Felicity: their birth, / and their mirth: their lives, and their wives: their health, and their / wealth: their ways, and their plays: their diet, and quiet. / And how with their Dam'sels they laugh and lye down, / And to each pretty Virgin, they give a green gown. | The second part, |
| Tune Imprint | To a delightful tune, Sung at the Dukes Play-house to the King, and all the Nobility: Or, Now the Tyrant has stoln my dearest away, &c. | to the same tune. |
| First Lines | VVHat an innocent loving life / Shepheards do lead, | WE feel not the cares which / attend upon crowns |
| Refrain | With our Shepherdesses / we laugh and lye down, / And to each pretty Damosel / we give a green gown. [with variations] | |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?190 x 300 | |
| Condition | cropped top edge, uneven inking | |
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