EBBA 21808
Magdalene College - Pepys
| Mirth for Citizens: Or, A Comedy for the Country. / Shewing, / A young Farmer his unfortunate Marriage, / His Wife is so churlish, so currish in Carriage / He married her for beauty, for his own delight, / Now he repents it both day and night. / By Physognomy, adviseth young men that at (Wenches skip, / To be sure to look before that they lip, / To leap at a venture, and catch a fall, / Raising the Forehead, breaks Horns, and all. | ||
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| Date Published | 1681-1684 | |
| Author | Abraham Miles | |
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| Imprint | Printed for Jo. Wright, J. Clarke W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger. | |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys | |
| Page | 4.144 | |
| Location | Pepys Library | |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 4.144 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Mirth for Citizens: Or, A Comedy for the Country. / Shewing, / A young Farmer his unfortunate Marriage, / His Wife is so churlish, so currish in Carriage / He married her for beauty, for his own delight, / Now he repents it both day and night. / By Physognomy, adviseth young men that at (Wenches skip, / To be sure to look before that they lip, / To leap at a venture, and catch a fall, / Raising the Forehead, breaks Horns, and all. | The Second part, |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Ragged, torn, and true. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | HEy boys my Fathers dead, / and what need I to fear. | O we had a gallant brave weding indeed / and dilicate dishes store, |
| Refrain | Sure thrice happy am I, / if I obtain this bride, / Theres none can her come nigh, / not in the whole World beside. | Sure thrice happy am I, &c. |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?205 x 337 | |
| Condition | cropped top and right edges, creased and damaged surface, uneven inking | |
| Ornament | hatched border: 10 x 152, vertical rules | |