The unfortunate couple; or, The unkind father : being a true relation of a squire's son, who having married his father's maid against his consent, was reduced to such great necessity, that his young wife died for greif, and his father denying him releif, he fell into sad dispair, and shot himself dead with a pistol, in his chamber in L-d-g-te-street on Saturday last. Tune, of orgive me if my looks thought &c.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and child--Early works to 1800.

Parent and child.

Suicide victims--Early works to 1800.

Suicide victims.

Fathers--Early works to 1800.

Fathers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

London : printed for P. Markham near Bridge-water-square, [1700?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

In verse.

First line of verse: You cruel parents, most severe.

Year of publication conjectured by Wing.

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2067:38) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) U50B

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