A ballad on the gyants in the Physick Garden in Oxford, who have been breeding for as long as Gargantua was teeth. To the tune of the Counter scuffle.

People / Organizations

• Edmund Gayton (Author)

Imprint

[Oxford: by William Hall, 1662]

Publication year

1662-1662

ESTC No.

R177547

Grub Street ID

69616

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1⁰

Note

Tentatively attributed to Edmund Gayton by Madan, who notes that "Wood was not certain". Wing accepts the attribution; the Bodleian Library ballads database doesn't mention it.

Imprint from Wing.

Verses - "What is our Oxford Africa?".

Concerns yew trees that, under the direction of Jacob Bobart, who was in charge of the Physick Garden, were trimmed to resemble giants.