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Title: An excellent new ballad, to the tune of How unhappy is Phillis in love
Creator: D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723, author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1681
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Printed Books
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: ESTC R32948 ; Verse - "Let Oliver now be forgotten," ; A satire on Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury ; First line of imprint ends "and are to be" no comma following "tune of" in line 2 of title. By Thomas D'Urfey. The text is printed in v.2 of his collected works: Wit and mirth, or, Pills to purge melancholy (1719), with the title “Old Tony”.
Type: text
Format: Image
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; (1/2 sheet)
Identifier: 299798:47
281001
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll3/id/5838
Subject: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683--Controversial literature
Political satire, English--Early works to 1800
Broadsides. (rbgenr)
Ballads. (rbgenr)
Source: Printed Books, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Binding signed by Birdsall. Provenance: bookplate of William Arthur, sixth Duke of Portland

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