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EBBA 37374

British Library - Bagford
Beauties Warningpiece / OR, / ADVICE to the FAIR[.] / You that are fairer than the rest / And count your selves with beauty blest / Observe this as a certainty, / That young, and old, and all must [die?] / Let me entreat you to prevent / Your grief and care, lest you lament[.]
Date Published 1681-1684 ?
Author
Standard Tune
Imprint Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackery, and T. Passenger.
License
Collection British Library - Bagford
Pages 2.34 Page Verso, 2.35
Location British Library
Shelfmark C.40.m.10.(38*.)
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Additional Information
  Part 1
Title Beauties Warningpiece / OR, / ADVICE to the FAIR[.] / You that are fairer than the rest / And count your selves with beauty blest / Observe this as a certainty, / That young, and old, and all must [die?] / Let me entreat you to prevent / Your grief and care, lest you lament[.]
Tune Imprint Tune of, Yo, ho, ho.
First Lines IN Cambridge lives a Maiden fair, / With her there's few that can compare:
Refrain Then welcome grief, and care, and woe, / Lingring is loves overthrow. [with variation]
Condition
Ornament
Notes Cut apart and pasted onto separate album sheets.

Printed on the verso of EBBA 37373, "The Life and Death of the Famous Thomas Stukely. / An English Gallant in the time of Queen Elizabeth, who ended his Life in a Battel of three / Kings of Barbery."