01883nam 2200385 n 450 99639531890331620200824121135.0(CKB)3810000000011651(EEBO)2264208924(UnM)ocm99884639e(UnM)99884639(EXLCZ)99381000000001165119950314d1675 uy engurbn||||a|bb|The pining maid, or, A pattern for lovers[electronic resource] giving a brief account of the unfortunate death of a young man living in Coventry, shopkeeper, who drowned himself for the love of a maid daughter to a captain of the said city, because she denyed her promise and would not yeild to be his wife and now she lives in a most sad condition and is very much troubled in her mind the poet having a hint of some of her grief composed these lines into meeter, according to her directions and so caused it to be printed for all young men and maids, to take example by the same. The tune is, alack for my love I must dye[London] Printed for Phillip Brooksby near the Hospeital-gate in West-Smith-field[1675?]1 sheet ([1] p.) ill. (woodcut)Date of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.Verse: "Come all young men [and] maidens".In two parts, printed side by side.Imperfect: Copy cut and mounted; second part has faded print.Reproduction of original in the British Library.eebo-0018Ballads, English17th centuryBroadsidesEngland17th century.rbgenrBallads, EnglishCu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINCu-RivESBOOK996395318903316The pining maid or A pattern for lovers2392631UNISA