EBBA 22180
Magdalene College - Pepys
| Constancy Lamented: / OR, A / Warning for Unkind Parents, / Not [t]o seperate those who are joyned in Love: / being a full and true Account of a Wealthy Tradesman's Son in the Strand, who died / on Friday last, for the Grief he conceived in the Absence of his dearly beloved E. / H --- ks (a Hereford-shire Damsel) who was by his Hard-hearted Mother, sold to / Virginia; and of the many Arguments the Mother used to perswade this Young- / Man to fix his love on some more Wealthy Maiden: With the Mothers sad lamen- / tation,and almost Raving Distraction for her Son's Death, and her own most Un- / worthy Action. / The whole Published from the Relation of a Worthy young Gentlewoman, a daily Visi- / tant of the said young Man's, and a sorrowful mourner for his great mishap. | |
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| Date Published | 1690-1700 ? |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for Charles Barnet. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 5.353 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 5.353 |
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| Title | Constancy Lamented: / OR, A / Warning for Unkind Parents, / Not [t]o seperate those who are joyned in Love: / being a full and true Account of a Wealthy Tradesman's Son in the Strand, who died / on Friday last, for the Grief he conceived in the Absence of his dearly beloved E. / H --- ks (a Hereford-shire Damsel) who was by his Hard-hearted Mother, sold to / Virginia; and of the many Arguments the Mother used to perswade this Young- / Man to fix his love on some more Wealthy Maiden: With the Mothers sad lamen- / tation,and almost Raving Distraction for her Son's Death, and her own most Un- / worthy Action. / The whole Published from the Relation of a Worthy young Gentlewoman, a daily Visi- / tant of the said young Man's, and a sorrowful mourner for his great mishap. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, All Happy Times, &c. Or, Languishing Swain. |
| First Lines | ALas! my dearest Dear is gone, / And I am left to sigh and moan, |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet folio, 277 x 154 |
| Condition | cropped top and left edges, creased surface, uneven inking |
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