EBBA 30775
British Library - Roxburghe
| Mirth for Citizens: Or, A Comedy for the Country. / Shewing / A young Farmer his unfortunate marriage, / His wife is so churlish & currish in carriage / He married her for beauty, for's own delight / Now he repents it both day and night. / By physiognomy adviseth young men that at Wenches skip, / To be sure to look before that they leap, / To leap at a venture, & catch a fall, / Raising the forehead breaks horns and all. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
| Author | Abraham Miles |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Py-corner. |
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| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe |
| Page | 2.328 |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.8.328 |
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| Title | Mirth for Citizens: Or, A Comedy for the Country. / Shewing / A young Farmer his unfortunate marriage, / His wife is so churlish & currish in carriage / He married her for beauty, for's own delight / Now he repents it both day and night. / By physiognomy adviseth young men that at Wenches skip, / To be sure to look before that they leap, / To leap at a venture, & catch a fall, / Raising the forehead breaks horns and all. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune of, Ragged, torn, and true. |
| First Lines | HEy boys my Fathers dead, / and what need I to fear, |
| Refrain | Sure thrice happy am I / if I obtain this Bride, / There's none can her come nigh / in all the whole world beside. |
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| Notes | Printed on the recto of EBBA 30776, entitled "LOVE and HONOUR: / OR, THE / Lover's Farewel to Calista: /Being sent from Sea in the late Engagement against the Dutch, to his Mistriss, under / the Name of Calista. To which is added, The LADY's Deploring and Ingenious / Answer." |