The fair maid of Dunsmore's lamentation : Occasion'd by Lord Wigmore, governour of Warwick Castle: being a full and true relation how he entic'd fair Isabel of Dunsmore, in Warwickshire, a shepherd's daughter to his bed; she perceiving herself with child by him, rather than under go the disgrace amongst her friends, stabbed herself, and died immediately. To the tune of, Troy town.

The fair maid of Dunsmore's lamentation : Occasion'd by Lord Wigmore, governour of Warwick Castle: being a full and true relation how he entic'd fair Isabel of Dunsmore, in Warwickshire, a shepherd's daughter to his bed; she perceiving herself with child by him, rather than under go the disgrace amongst her friends, stabbed herself, and died immediately. To the tune of, Troy town.

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Imprint:[London : Printed by [and for W.O.]and sold by J. Deacon at the Angel in Guilt-spur street, 1690?]
Description:1 online resource (1 sheet ([1] p.)) : ill. (woodcut)
Language:English
Subject:
Ballads, English -- 17th century.
Ballads, English.
Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11527770
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Other uniform titles:Troy town.
Notes:Licens'd and enter'd.
In four columns with the title and a woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.
Imperfect: copy is very dark and difficult to read; mutilated, affecting text and imprint.
Verse: "All you that ever heard the name."
ESTC suggests item is Wing F98.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) F98
Early English books tract supplement interim guide C.20.f.9[893]
Roxburghe ballads Rox. III. 893

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