EBBA 21745
Magdalene College - Pepys
| A Looking-Glass for Ladies, / OR, / A mirrour for married-women. / Lively setting forth the rare Constancy, Chastity, Patience, and purity of Penelope the / Wife of Ulisses, one of the Grecian Generals, who during the Ten Years absence of her / Husband at the siege of Troy, was solicited, and importun'd, by numbers of Emminent / Suitors; who attempted her chastity, and endeavoured to violate her Honour, but never / could prevail. She addicted her self wholly to Charity, and good Housewifery, until her Husbands return. / Which may serve as a Pattern for all Ladies, Gentlewomen, and others to / Imitate her vertuous Example. | |
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| Date Published | 1674-1679 |
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| Imprint | Printed for F. Coles, T, Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. |
| License | With Allowance. |
| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 4.81 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 4.81 |
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| Title | A Looking-Glass for Ladies, / OR, / A mirrour for married-women. / Lively setting forth the rare Constancy, Chastity, Patience, and purity of Penelope the / Wife of Ulisses, one of the Grecian Generals, who during the Ten Years absence of her / Husband at the siege of Troy, was solicited, and importun'd, by numbers of Emminent / Suitors; who attempted her chastity, and endeavoured to violate her Honour, but never / could prevail. She addicted her self wholly to Charity, and good Housewifery, until her Husbands return. / Which may serve as a Pattern for all Ladies, Gentlewomen, and others to / Imitate her vertuous Example. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune of, Queen Dido: or, Troy Town. |
| First Lines | WHen Greeks, and Trojans, fell at strife, / and Lords in Armour bright were seen, |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 205 x 293 |
| Condition | cropped top and bottom edges, holed surface |
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