Patient Grissel

All titles

• Patient Grissel
• Most pleasant ballad of patient Grissell

People / Organizations

• Thomas Deloney (Author)

Imprint

London] : Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, [1775?

Added name

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Publication year

1775

ESTC No.

T43770

Grub Street ID

272300

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (woodcuts); obl.1/2°.

Note

Attributed to Thomas Deloney

Based on book 10, novel 10 of the 'Decamerone' by Giovanni Boccaccio

Verse - "A noble marquis, as he was hunting,"

In three columns with the title and woodcut above the first; the columns are not separated by rules

A variant has the first line of the third column, "As they unjustly crave," missing.