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Prologue to a new play call'd The disappointment, or, The mother in fashion
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/86313506
Description	Prologue to: Thomas Southerne. The disappointment, or The mother in fashion. "Epilogue by another hand" is by the Hon. John Stafford; see MacDonald. In one column. First line reads: How comes it, gentlemen, that now aday's. Second sheet contains Epilogue.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.3854
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1684 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Theatrical productions Plays (performed works)
Person / organisation:	Dryden, John, 1631-1700 [Author] Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746 [Author] Stafford-Howard, John, -1714 [Author] Lucy, Edward [Bookseller]
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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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