A warning to all lewd livers. By the example of a disobedient child, who riotously wasted and consumed his fathers and mothers goods, and also his own, among strumpets and other lewd livers, and dyed most miserably on a dunghill. The tune is, Sir Andrew Barton

People / Organizations

• L. P. (Author)

Imprint

London] : Printed for J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, [between 1681 and 1686?

Added name

M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?, attributed name.; Clarke, John, active 1641-1695, bookseller.; Thackeray, William, active 1664-1693, bookseller.; Passinger, Thomas, -1688, bookseller.

Publication year

1681-1686

ESTC No.

R234544

Grub Street ID

105882

Description

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

Note

Verse - "My bleeding heart with grief and care,"

Anonymous. Another edition of this balled conjecturally dated to 1633 (STC 20324) is signed "L.P." and attributed to Laurence Price by STC. Wing attributes later editions to Martin Parker based on ESTC R216199 (formerly Wing P85) which is signed "M.P." and printed for Francis Grove. Susan Newman suggests "M.P." is a misprint. See Newman, S.A. (1976). Thesis (Ph.D). The Broadside Ballads of Martin Parker. University of Birmingham. Vol.1, p.360. The ODNB entry for Martin Parker suggests that "his initials may have been fostered upon other men's labours by a canny bookseller particularly Francis Coles or Francis Grove who saw the commercial value of Parker's name"

The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) suggests publication date between 1684-1686. Dated imprints in the ESTC for these three booksellers span 1681-1686 (ESTC R179010, R215654). This record previously dated [1641?] but no evidence given to support this

Not in Wing

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 5, Appendix II, p. 27.

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