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The children in the woods. : Being, a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children of a deceased gentleman in Norfolk ... : To a very mournful tune.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 19766. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19766.
- Standardized Title:
- Children in the wood (Ballad)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infanticide--Poetry.
- Infanticide.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Ballads.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page
- Place of Publication:
- [Hartford] : Sold at the printing-office in Hartford., [between 1764 and 1810]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Verse in thirty-eight stanzas; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.
- Followed by eight additional lines entitled: A Word of advice to executors.
- Text printed in three columns.
- Shaw & Shoemaker date this [181-?], but typography and use of the long "s" throughout suggest an earlier printing date. The phrase "Sold at the printing-office in Hartford" appears on several imprints dated between 1764 and 1799.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19766).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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