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    • Title:True love requited, or, The bailiff's daughter of Islington : the young-man's friends the maid did scorn, 'cause she was poor and left forlorn, they sent the esquire to London fair, to be an apprentice seven year : and when he out on's time was come, he met his love a going home, and then to end all farther strife, he took the maid to be his wife : to a north-country tune, or, I have a good old mother at home.
    • Published/Created:[London] : Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner, [between 1670 and 1696?]
    • Physical Description:1 sheet ([1] p.) : 3 ill. (woodcuts) ; 22 x 35 cm.
    • Links:View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
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    • Local Notes:BEIN 2000 Folio 6 74: Mounted to 30 x 42 cm.
    • Notes:Verse - "There was a youth, and a well-belov'd youth".
      Place and date of publication from Wing.
      There are at least 4 different editions of Wing T2735. One other edition has "bayliff's daughter" in title, and the other 2 have slightly different imprints.
    • Variant and related titles:True love requited
      Baliff's daughter of Islington
    • Format:Book
    • References:Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), T2735
      English short title catalogue, R228607
    • Subjects:Ballads, English--England--Texts.
    • Genre/Form:Ballads.
    • Also listed under:England--London.