EBBA 37729
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| The Description of a Tovvn Miss. / OR, / A Looking-Glass for all Confident Ladies. / A POEM, / Describing all their Arts, Titilations, and Temptations which they set to ensnare Young / Men, and unadvised Lovers. / If these few Lines are well digested, no Man shall be seduc'd by a fair flattering woman. | |
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| Date Published | 1674-1679 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. |
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| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(109.) |
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| Title | The Description of a Tovvn Miss. / OR, / A Looking-Glass for all Confident Ladies. / A POEM, / Describing all their Arts, Titilations, and Temptations which they set to ensnare Young / Men, and unadvised Lovers. / If these few Lines are well digested, no Man shall be seduc'd by a fair flattering woman. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Amarilli. |
| First Lines | YOu Limber Ladies that appear, / in diverse kind of dresses, |
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| Notes | Printed on the recto of EBBA 37730, "THE LATE / Bloody Fight in Flanders: / VVith an Account of the Numbers slain on both sides; ours scarce being ten / Thousand, and the French twenty five Thousand. As also the taking seve- / ral Prisoners of note, amongst which was the Duke de Maine, the French / King's Son, the Duke of Barwick, and likewise the Son of Luxemburgh the / French General. Together with a second Encounter by fresh Forces, who / falling on the French routed them, seizing on their Baggage and Sixty Pieces / of Cannon; to the great Satisfaction of our Royal Army." |