Old mans wish. This old-man he doth wish for wealth in vain but he thereby doth not the treasure gain; for if with wishes he the same could have, he would not mind nor think upon the grave. To a pleasant new play-house tune

People / Organizations

• Walter Pope (Author)

Imprint

London]: Printed for J. Deacon, in Guilt-spur-street, [1671 - 1704

Publication year

1671-1704

ESTC No.

R234664

Grub Street ID

105978

Description

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

Note

Bodleian Library ballads database suggests publication date "between 1671 and 1704" for a very similar edition; Wing suggests "[1671-1700]"; LC name authority file suggests "[1684]"

Verse - "If I live to grow old,"; Another edition has "at the Angel" in imprint

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 4, p. 370.