A new ballad.
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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[London?],
[publisher not identified] ;
[1717-1718]
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| Series: | Eighteenth century collections online.
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| Online Access: | Full text online |
| Item Description: | Publication date range from Foxon. A slip-song - "At James's house, is a damnable rout,". Originally printed as a 1/2⁰ sheet with another song on the right-hand side entitled 'An excellent new ballad on the fall of guinea's', with first line "One and twenty and six-pence, not three weeks ago,", which song has in the first line of last stanza "Hanover" (Foxon E553); the sheet meant to be divided. The first song is a "satire on the quarrel between King George and the Prince of Wales at the christening of his son George William" and the second song a "Jacobite satire on the devaluation of the guinea .. in December 1717" (Foxon). Reproduction of original from the British Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 sheet ; 1/4⁰. |