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The good wives fore-cast, or, the kind and loving mothers counsel to her daughter after marriage. : My daughter dear I pray give ear, this lesson I have learn'd, I'll tell to you, you'l find it true, a penny sav'd, is earn'd. Tune of, Why are my eyes, still flow----ing, &c. This may be printed, R.P.

1671
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Title
The good wives fore-cast, or, the kind and loving mothers counsel to her daughter after marriage. : My daughter dear I pray give ear, this lesson I have learn'd, I'll tell to you, you'l find it true, a penny sav'd, is earn'd. Tune of, Why are my eyes, still flow----ing, &c. This may be printed, R.P.
Created/published
[London] : Printed for J[onah]. Deacon at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate, [1671 - 1704]
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; obl. (full-sheet).
Note
Bodleian Library ballads database suggests publication date "between 1671 and 1704"; Wing suggests "[1685 - 1688]".

Verse - "My daughter dear, now since you are become a bride,".

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ESTC staff note
Copies exhibit some variation, e.g., the left-hand border of the left-hand woodcut of the MH-H copy at *EBB65h v.1 no.125 is under the "h" in "Why"; in the O copy at Douce Ballads 1(91a) it is under the "o" of "of". But they do not appear to be different editions.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), G1084
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R227198
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
155442 (flat)

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