The pensive lover, or, The damosels crosses crown'd with comfort : She for a time had lost her swain, for which her heart near broke : likewise she would her self have slain, but Phaon stopt the stroke / To the tune of, Grim king of the ghosts.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3:2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Broadsides.

Man-woman relationships--Early works to 1800.

Man-woman relationships.

England--London.

Genre:

Ballads -- England -- 17th century.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; oblong 1/2⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for J[osiah]. Blare, at the Looking-Glass on Lundon-Bridge [sic], [1687?]

Summary:

Ballad about a suicidal lover.

Notes:

Verse - "O pitty a harmless maid".

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

Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives range of dates: 1684-1690.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[77], possible variant setting with [;] missing after "lover" in first line, or [;] faded off of work.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3:2

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), P1433

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR227327.

OCLC:

63661535