The [no]be-mans generous kindness, or, The country-man's unexpected happiness : giving a true account of a nobleman, who taking notice of the poor man's industrious care and pains for the maintaining of his charge, which was seven small children, meeting him upon a day, discoursed with him, and inviting him and his wife, with his children, home to his house, and accordingly bestowed upon him a farm of thirty acres of land, to be continued to him and his heirs for ever / [t]o the tune of, The two English travellers ; this may be printed, R.P.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broadsides--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Broadsides.

Nobility--Early works to 1800.

Nobility.

Rural poor--Early works to 1800.

Rural poor.

England--London.

Genre:

Ballads -- England -- 17th century.

Physical Description:

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

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Noble mans generous kindness, or, The country-mans unexpected happiness

Noblemans generous kindness, or, The country-mans unexpected happiness

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, at the sign of the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner, [1686?]

Summary:

Ballad about generous nobleman and a poor man.

Notes:

Verse - "A noble man liv'd near a village of late,".

Place of publication and publisher's name from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.

Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives range of dates: 1685-1688.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[267], torn at head and left margin, with loss of title, text and one woodcut; appears to be a variant setting with slightly 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), N1210

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR227319.

OCLC:

63661531