The English fortune-teller. [B]eing a brief direction to shun all strife, a brief instruction how to chuse a wife, whereby a man may lead a happy life. It shews a difference in womans qualities, by colour of their hair, both face & eyes. The tune is, Ragged and torn, &c

People / Organizations

• Thomas Passinger Sr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, [1666 - 1684

Publication year

1681-1684

ESTC No.

R187955

Grub Street ID

76013

Description

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

Note

Publication date range in Wing = "[1681-84]". Bodleian Library ballads database suggests publication date "between 1666 and 1679" for a very similar edition

Verse - "You young-men that want skill in wooing,"

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 3, p. 152.

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