EBBA 37902
Morgan Library and Museum - Miscellaneous
| The Life and Death of / GEORGE of OXFORD | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-Corner. |
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| Collection | Morgan Library and Museum - Miscellaneous |
| Location | The Morgan Library & Museum |
| Shelfmark | Broadside box 17c 003469.66 |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | The Life and Death of / GEORGE of OXFORD |
| Tune Imprint | To a Pleasant new Tune call'd Poor Georgy. |
| First Lines | AS I went over London-Bridge / all in a misty morning, |
| Refrain | His time it is past, / His life it will not last, / Alack and alas! there is no Remedy, / Which makes the heart within me, / Ready to burst in three, / To think on the death of poor Georgy. [with variation] | But my thread it is spun, / My Glass is almost run, / Alack and alas! there is no remedy; / Which makes my heart within me / Ready to burst in three, / To die like a Dog, (says poor Georgy) [with variation] |
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| Notes | Printed on the recto of EBBA 37903, "THE / Wonderful Discovery: / Or, The Murtherers brought to light: / Being a full and true Account of the Inhumane murther committed upon the person of Tho- / mas Thin, Esq; who was Shot in his Coach, in the Pall-Mall, on the 12th of Feb. 1682. by one / George Boroskie, a Polander; who at that time was accompanied with Christopher Fratz, and / John Stern[...]" |