The west-country maids advice : Here is a song I send to you, fair maidens every one : and you may say that it is true, when I am dead and gone / To the tune of, Hey boys, up go we.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Bowne, Tobias.

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Broadsides.

Single women--England--Early works to 1800.

Single women.

England.

England--London.

Genre:

Ballads -- England -- 17th century.

Physical Description:

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

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball, near the Hospital-gate, in West-Smithfield, [1680?]

Summary:

Ballad exhorting virgins to remain chaste and choose a husband wisely, or preferably to remain single.

Notes:

Verse - "Fair maids draw near to me a while".

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

Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives range of dates: 1670-1696.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[221], appears to be a variant setting with different punctuation starting with text verse, and some different woodcuts.

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), B3901

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR227470.

OCLC:

63661554