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Prologue for the musick
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/86027329
Description	" ... spoken on Tuesday, January the 4th, 1703". Prologue for the musick - first line reads: Such is, yee fair, your universal sway. Epilogue to the ladies - first line reads: With joy we see this circle of the fair. In one column.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.3157
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1704 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Poems Queens (people) Theatrical productions
Person / organisation:	Tonson, Jacob, 1655-1736 [Printer] Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714 [Subject of text]
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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