The difficult French-man's unsuccessful adventers, or, A new ballad of a finical monsieur, who came to marry an English lady, but could find none for his purpose, till conquer'd by a crack : Monsieur pragmatical, was shipt from deep, landed at Dover, big with hopes to reap clusters of love from all the femal sex, he courted those with pearls about their necks : No mean-born lady could this fopp content, for the mest mark we find his bow was bent : but after all his courtship, e, alack, greedily grasp'd a common [Whetston]-crack / to the tune of, there was a brisk lais, &c. ; 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.

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 1⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, in Pye[-]Corner, [between 1670 and 1696]

Summary:

A ballad about a Frenchman who unsuccessfully wooes an English lady.

Notes:

Verse - "My pockets begar, were lin'd very well,".

Place and date of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.

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), D1419A

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR233022.

OCLC:

63661772