A good wife is worth gold : or, A good wife she is a comfort to a man, if a man be careful to comfort her agen : but a wife that's loving let not her husband grutch, he never can love a loving wife too much : I heard it spoken upon this English ground, that a loving wife was worth a thousand pound / the tune is, Jenny come tye my bonny cravat.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mate selection--Early works to 1800.

Mate selection.

Broadsides--England--Early works to 1800.

Broadsides.

Wives--Early works to 1800.

Wives.

England.

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 J[onah]. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street, [1695?]

Summary:

A ballad about the worth of a good wife to her husband.

Notes:

Verse - "All young-men come hearken a while if you please,"

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

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 1[177], stained, with some loss of text.

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), G1082B

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR233126.

OCLC:

63661853