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A most excellent new ballad, of an olde man and his wife, which in their olde age and misery sought to their owne children for succour, by whom they were disdained & scornfully sent away succourlesse, and how the vengeancc [sic] of God was iustly shewed vpon them for the same. To the tune of Prissilla

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Title: A most excellent new ballad, of an olde man and his wife, which in their olde age and misery sought to their owne children for succour, by whom they were disdained & scornfully sent away succourlesse, and how the vengeancc [sic] of God was iustly shewed vpon them for the same. To the tune of Prissilla
Date Created and/or Issued: 1595
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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 S121803 ; Verse - "It was an old man, which with his poore wife," ; Publisher's name supplied and publication date estimated by STC
Type: text
Format: Image
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; (1/2 sheet)
Identifier: 18314
280876
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll3/id/5270
Subject: Broadsides. (rbgenr)
Ballads. (rbgenr)
Source: Printed Books, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Provenance: Tollemache family - William Stevenson Fitch - George Daniel - Thomas Thorpe - Heber copy Britwell sale, 16 Dec. 1919:16

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