<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The northern ditty, or, The Scotchman outwitted by a country damsel</dc:title><dc:creator>D’Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723</dc:creator><dc:date>[between 1775 and 1783?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Verse -- "Cold and raw the North did blow,".</dc:description><dc:description>Anonymous. By Thomas D’Urfey.</dc:description><dc:description>In four columns with the title above the first two and a woodcut above the first; the columns are not separated by rules. - A variant has "no. 41, Aldermary Church Yard".</dc:description><dc:description>The body of the text is set entirely in italic type.</dc:description><dc:description>No full stop at end of title and first line of verse ends with a comma.</dc:description><dc:description>Dated from the address in the other printing (or issue); see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.</dc:description><dc:description>Another printing (or issue), clearly from the same setting of type, has imprint "Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard" (ESTC T206462).</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted on leaf 10. Copy trimmed.</dc:description><dc:description>Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>