EBBA 22013
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Country Mans Delight. / Or, The Happy Joyes of a Countrey Life. / Being a most pleasant New Song. / How bless'd are they who free from care and strife / In humble Cottages do lead their life? / They there posses those joys for which mankind / Of higher Rank, labour in vain to find. / They live more happy, at Content and Ease, / Than Princes in their stately Pallaces. / They feel not the tempestuous Storms of state, / Live all in peace are strangers to debate. | |
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| Date Published | 1681-1684 |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Wright. J. Clark, W. Thackery and T. Passenger. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 4.349 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 4.349 |
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| Title | The Country Mans Delight. / Or, The Happy Joyes of a Countrey Life. / Being a most pleasant New Song. / How bless'd are they who free from care and strife / In humble Cottages do lead their life? / They there posses those joys for which mankind / Of higher Rank, labour in vain to find. / They live more happy, at Content and Ease, / Than Princes in their stately Pallaces. / They feel not the tempestuous Storms of state, / Live all in peace are strangers to debate. |
| Tune Imprint | To a new Tune of, Happy is the Countrey life, Or, Smiling Phillis, &c. |
| First Lines | HAppy is the Countrey life, / bless'd with content, & health, and ease |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 210 x 318 |
| Condition | cropped top and bottom edges, creased surface, uneven inking |
| Ornament | vertical rule and cast fleurons |