The tormented lovers admonition : Let not her beauty tempt thee so, from reason for to flye, least she doth prove thy cruel foe, and fatal enemy : when women get the upper hand, and men do once submit, they will inslave you, and command those things that are not fit / To the tune of, Busie fame.

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 F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackerayand [sic], T. Passenger, [between 1678 and 1681?]

Summary:

A cautionary ballad against letting a woman control ones relationship.

Notes:

In title, first and second columns separated by one set of left and right brackets.

Verse - "Cassandra's beauty charm'd mine eye,"

Place and publisher's names from Wing CD-ROM, 1996; Wing shows "London" as being in imprint, but it is not.

Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives range of dates, 1678-1681.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[159], cropped at head, with slight loss of woodcuts over third and fourth columns.

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), T1915A

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR233902.

OCLC:

63661936