EBBA 36670
British Library - Thomason Tracts Ballads
| The true Portraiture of a prodigious Monster, taken in the Mountains of Zardana; / The following Description whereof was sent to Madrid, Octob. 20. 1654. and from thence to Don / Olonzo de Cardines, Ambassador for the King of Spain, now resident at London. Its stature was like / that of a strong well set man, with 7 heads, the chief of them looking forward, with one eye in its / front; the other heads have each two eyes in their natural scituation, the ears of an Ass; with its princi- / pal head it eates, drinks, and cryes with an extraordinary and terrible voyce; the other heads are al- / so moved to and fro: It hath seven Arms and Hands of a Man, very strong in each of them: From / the middle downward it is like a Satyr, with Goats feet, and cloven; it hath no distinction of Sex. | ||
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| Date Published | 1654-1663 ? | |
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| Imprint | LONDON: Printed for Iohn Andrews, at the White Lyon in the Old-Bayly. 1655. | |
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| Collection | British Library - Thomason Tracts Ballads | |
| Page | 19.81 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | 669.f.19.(81.) | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The true Portraiture of a prodigious Monster, taken in the Mountains of Zardana; / The following Description whereof was sent to Madrid, Octob. 20. 1654. and from thence to Don / Olonzo de Cardines, Ambassador for the King of Spain, now resident at London. Its stature was like / that of a strong well set man, with 7 heads, the chief of them looking forward, with one eye in its / front; the other heads have each two eyes in their natural scituation, the ears of an Ass; with its princi- / pal head it eates, drinks, and cryes with an extraordinary and terrible voyce; the other heads are al- / so moved to and fro: It hath seven Arms and Hands of a Man, very strong in each of them: From / the middle downward it is like a Satyr, with Goats feet, and cloven; it hath no distinction of Sex. | The Second Part, |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Summer time. | To the same Tune. |
| First Lines | BEhold the Wonders of the Lord / In this same Creature pictur'd here, | SEven armes and hands he also hath, / With fingers well proportion'd all, |
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| Notes | In manuscript below the imprint: "June" | |