The distressed damsels downfall by a deceitful youngman : shewing how a young maid that was but fifteen years of age, was trappan'd by a sembling young man that promised her marriage from time to time, till he got his [op]ortunity, lay with her and got her with child, and then forsook her, and she wandring up and down, at last was delivered of two brave boys, and she not being sixteen years of age, yet a thing both strange and true : with a warning for other maids o take example by / to the tune of Frankling [sic] is dead and gone, o hone, [sic] o hone [sic].

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

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.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

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

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for Francis Coles, T. Vere[,] J. Wright and J. Clarke, [between 1674 and 1679]

Summary:

A ballad warning against premarital sex.

Notes:

Verse - "You pritty maidens all".

Place and date of publication from Wing; Wing shows London as printed on work, but in fact it is not on microfilm.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 1[115], cropped and faded, affecting title, text and imprint.

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), D1701A

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR233012.

OCLC:

63661769