The maids ansvver to the batchelors ballad. Or, Love without remedy. Thou scriber! unto whom the vulgar crew, gives small applause, yet more then is thy due; whose brazen brow, a wither'd wreath adorns, which better wou'd become a pair of horns: know we contemn thee: thy malicious pen can have no influence on the minds of men: in our dispraise, in vain thou seek'st to write, true, thou mayst shew thy teeth, but canst not bite. Alas! rude boy; love is a generous pain, which minds ignoble, cannot entertain: therefore thy accusations are unjust, in giving love the character of lust. With allowance, by Ro. L'Estrange. To the tune of; No more silly Cupid: or, The Duke of Monmouth's jig.
L'Estrange, Roger,Sir,1616-1704.
[London] : Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, [at] the Golden-Ball near the Hospital-gate, in West smithfield,
[1681?]
Place of publication and publisher's name from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.
Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives range of dates: 1678-1685.
Verse - "Who's here so ingenious".
Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[20], cropped at right margin, with slight loss of imprint and text.
Tempnote Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library.
Adamnote Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
Locations:  E  Copy notes: Matched from printed catalog. Shelfmark: Crawford Coll.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC
Microfilm.
Microfilm.
Broadsides
Love poetry, English