A looking-glass for maids, or, The downfal of two most desperate lovers : Henry Hartlove and William Martin, both late living in the Isle of Wight, who for the love of Ann Scarborough a beautiful virgin, she having made her self sure to one of them, and afterwards fell off to the other, they challenged the field, where after a cruel fight, they were mortally wounded and found dead on the place by the forementioned maiden, who bestowed many tears on their bodies, and buried [t]hem in one grave / Tune is, Aim not too high : And now he lives in grief and sad distress, wishing all overs true more happiness.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; oblong 1⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : printed for [Tho.] Vere, at the Angel without Newgate, [1675?]

Summary:

A ballad about the battle two men fought for the love of a woman.

Notes:

Date of publication suggested by cataloger.

Verse - "Unhappy I who in the prime of youth,".

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 1[232], cropped and faded, with some loss of title and text; appears to be a variant, with some different spelling and punctuation.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications ; Oxford, England : Bodleian Photographic Service. 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L3021

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR216115.

OCLC:

63661445