EBBA 37476
British Library - Bagford
| [THE / Old M]ans Complaint / AS FOLLOWETH. | |
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| Date Published | ? |
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| Collection | British Library - Bagford |
| Pages | 2.123 Verso, 2.124 Verso Page Verso |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.40.m.10.(127*.) |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | [THE / Old M]ans Complaint / AS FOLLOWETH. |
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| First Lines | MY prime is past, my strength decay, / My Youth is spent, my Head grows gray; |
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| Notes | A fragment, printed on the verso of EBBA 37475, "A Tragical Ballad on the Unfortunate LOVE / OF / Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, / TOGETHER / With the DOWNFAL of the Brown GIRL." The entire item includes "A Friendly Admonition" and "With Fifteen Short PRAYERS as Followeth", which has the author's name in an acrostic. A note by J.W. Ebsworth pasted into the album reads, "Bagford Collection Vol ii. p. 127 verso This is a fragment of The Old Man's Complaint, 1680, of which there is a perfect copy in Vol. iii. p. 92." See Vol. 3 p. 92, although this is not in fact a "perfect" copy, as the copy here does not include the date in the title. Cut apart and pasted onto two facing album sheets. This item is not a ballad, but is archived in EBBA because it is included in the important Bagford collection of ballads. |