EBBA 21119
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Dreaming Virgins Conceited happiness. / OR, / The Innocent Maidens Hue and Cry / After the Pleasures of Love. / Here Beauty, Innocence and all, are met, / As Diamonds are in Gold compleatly set. / Here Love in Native Innocence we paint, / Such Beauty rais'd, and Gold ne'r yet made faint. | |
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| Date Published | 1684-1686 |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray,/ and T. Passinger. |
| License | With Allowance. |
| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 3.113 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 3.113 |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | The Dreaming Virgins Conceited happiness. / OR, / The Innocent Maidens Hue and Cry / After the Pleasures of Love. / Here Beauty, Innocence and all, are met, / As Diamonds are in Gold compleatly set. / Here Love in Native Innocence we paint, / Such Beauty rais'd, and Gold ne'r yet made faint. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune of, My Life and My Death. |
| First Lines | I Am a young Maiden so brisk and so gay, / A Portion I have, and no longer wou'd stay: |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 194 x 274 |
| Condition | damaged surface, uneven inking |
| Ornament | vertical rule and cast fleurons |