The country mans delight. Or, The happy joyes of a countrey life. Being a most pleasant new song. How bless'd are they who free from care and strife in humble cottages do lead their life? They there posses those joys for which mankind of higher rank, labour in vain to find. They live more happy, at content and ease, than princes in their stately pallaces. They feel not the tempestuous storms of state, live all in peace are strangers to debate. To a new tune of, Happy is the countrey life, or, Smiling Phillis, &c

People / Organizations

• Thomas Passinger Sr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackery and T. Passenger, [between 1681 and 1684

Publication year

1681-1684

ESTC No.

R174296

Grub Street ID

67516

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 1°.

Note

Verse - "Happy is the countrey life,"

Place and date of publication suggested by Wing

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 4, p. 349.

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