Accession number
PML 3469.66 (recto)
Published
[London] : Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye Corner, [1683]
Notes
Place, date of publication and publisher's name from Wing (CD-ROM edition).
Wing (CD-ROM edition) reports variants within holdings list. Other settings in ESTC have imprint "Printed for P. Brooksby in West-smithfield" and "Printed for P. Brooksby at the Sign of the Golden Ball, near/ the Bear Tavern in Pye Corner".
In two parts, with the first part followed by "George's confession" in the middle of the 3rd column; first line: I have travell'd through the land.
Printed in four columns in black letter and roman type, the first twp columns separated by a thin rule, 3rd and 4th columns separated by a thick mourning rule; woodcuts above first two columns of (at left) a young woman holding a fan, and (at right) an execution scene, with the condemned hanging from a scaffold.
Refrain: His time it is past, / His life it Will not last, / Alack and alas! there is no Remedy, / Which makes the heart within me / Ready to burst in three / To think on the death of poor Georgy [with variations].
Regarded as an early printed variant of the ballad listed by Child (no. 209) and Roud (no. 90) as "Geordie".
Wing (CD-ROM edition) reports variants within holdings list. Other settings in ESTC have imprint "Printed for P. Brooksby in West-smithfield" and "Printed for P. Brooksby at the Sign of the Golden Ball, near/ the Bear Tavern in Pye Corner".
In two parts, with the first part followed by "George's confession" in the middle of the 3rd column; first line: I have travell'd through the land.
Printed in four columns in black letter and roman type, the first twp columns separated by a thin rule, 3rd and 4th columns separated by a thick mourning rule; woodcuts above first two columns of (at left) a young woman holding a fan, and (at right) an execution scene, with the condemned hanging from a scaffold.
Refrain: His time it is past, / His life it Will not last, / Alack and alas! there is no Remedy, / Which makes the heart within me / Ready to burst in three / To think on the death of poor Georgy [with variations].
Regarded as an early printed variant of the ballad listed by Child (no. 209) and Roud (no. 90) as "Geordie".
Description
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations (woodcut) ; 21 X 31 cm
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