EBBA 36525
British Library - Luttrell Ballads
| Upon Sight of LONDONS Stately New Buildings, / Anno Domini, MDCLXXII. / The FIRST PART, / Admiring it as a WONDER. | ||
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| Date Published | 1656-1679 ? | |
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| Imprint | LONDON, Printed by William Godbid, for the Author. 1672. | |
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| Collection | British Library - Luttrell Ballads | |
| Page | 2.128 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.4.(128.) | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Upon Sight of LONDONS Stately New Buildings, / Anno Domini, MDCLXXII. / The FIRST PART, / Admiring it as a WONDER. | The SECOND PART, / Supposing it might be Fir'd by TREACHERY. |
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| First Lines | O Thrice Illustrious Famous City LONDON, / What Tongue can say that e're thou yet were | BEhold ye impious Fiery Brands of Hell, / Who with your Grand-sire Lucifer do dwell, |
| Refrain | London's the Town of Chief Renown, let En--vy do her worst, shall wear the Crown. | London's the Town of Chief Renown, let En--vy do her worst, shall wear the Crown. |
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| Notes | In between the two parts is a column entitled "An Advertisement to the Reader, / or rather Singer." At the bottom of the page is interlineated musical notation, entitled "The Ayre with its Thorough=Bass." This is the source of the refrain. | |