EBBA 37423
British Library - Bagford
| THE / Winchester Weddi[n]g: / OR, / RALPH of Reading and Black BESS of the [G]reen. | |
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| Date Published | 1671-1702 ? |
| Author | Thomas D'Urfey |
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| Imprint | London: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate. |
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| Collection | British Library - Bagford |
| Pages | 2.76 Verso Page Verso, 2.77 |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.40.m.10.(80*.) |
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| Title | THE / Winchester Weddi[n]g: / OR, / RALPH of Reading and Black BESS of the [G]reen. |
| Tune Imprint | To a new Country Dance: or, The King's Jigg. |
| First Lines | AT Winchester was a Wedding, / the like was never seen, |
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| Notes | ESTC Author: Thomas D'Urfey. Printed on the verso of EBBA 37422, "The Mariners Misfortune, / OR, / The Unfortunate Voyage of two Constant Lovers. / Being an Account of a faithful Seaman, who going to take his Farwel of his Sweetheart, she re- / solved come Life, or come Death, to Sail with him; and putting her self into Mans Appar- / rel, went the Voyage with him, but by distress of weather, coming home were cast away, / the constant Seaman having no other help, betook himself to swimming, and having got his / Sweetheart upon his back, swam till he was almost tyred, but was at last taken up by an / Algerine, who carryed them to Algiers, where being brought before the Governour, she / confessed her self to be a Female, which so astonished the Governour, that he in requital of / her constancy, set them both free, who are happily Arrived in England again." Cut apart and pasted onto two facing album sheets. |