A garland of new songs. : The fairest of the fair; Here's a health, &.; Giles Scroggins' ghost; My only Jo' an' dearie O; The beautiful maid; The royal love letter

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Title: A garland of new songs. : The fairest of the fair; Here's a health, &.; Giles Scroggins' ghost; My only Jo' an' dearie O; The beautiful maid; The royal love letter
Contributor: Marshall, John (Printer of Newcastle upon Tyne), printer.
Published / Created: [between 1800 and 1831]
Publication Place: Newcastle upon Tyne and England Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market, where may also be had, a large and curious assortment of songs, ballads, tales, histories, &c.
Description: Title from first page.
Undated. Date range from trading dates of John Marshall, cf. The British book trade index.
A chapook.
Without music.
Crude woodcut title vignette of young man and woman holding hands.
Laid paper. Horizontal chain lines.
First sentence of The fairest of the fair: "O Nanny! wilt thou gang with me, nor sigh to leave the flaunting town?"
First sentence of Here's a health: "Here's a health to all good lasses; here's a health to all good lasses; Here's a health to all good lasses; Pledge it merrily, fill your glasses: Let a bumper toast go round."
First sentence of The sea-boy: "To England's towers of oak farewell, No more for me shall be unfurl'd the canvas in the gale to swell, The ocean is no more my world; Yet there life's ealiest years I fearlesss pass'd, a sea-boy on the high and giddy mast."
First sentence of Giles Scroggins' ghost: "Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown, Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; The fairest wench in all the town, Fol deriddle lol, &c."
First sentence of My only Jo' an' dearie o: "Thy cheek is o' the rose's hue, My only Jo and dearie O; Thy neck is like the siller dew, Upon the bank sae brierie O."
First sentence of The beautiful maid: "When absent from her my soul holds most dear, What medley of passions invade, In this bosom what anguish, what hope, and what fear, I endure for my beautiful maid, I endure for my beautiful maid."
Not in ESTC.
1 folded sheet, uncut. For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Antiquates; April 2021.
Extent: 8 pages : 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English