May 28th. 1706. To my worthy friend, Mr. James Bayley, living (if living) in Roxbury
Subtitle: A poem
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 39456
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1707
Place of publication: Boston?
Language: eng
Other titles: To my worthy friend, Mr. James Bayley ...; My old companion! and my friend!
Notes: Verse of 132 lines, concerning Bayley's last illness, which resulted in his death on January 18, 1707. First line: My old companion! and my friend!

Signed: Nicholas Noyes.

The New-York Historical Society copy has a ms. note by Samuel Sewall: "Printed July 30, 1707." Possibly printed earlier, as Sewall mentions a copy of the poem in his diary entry for July 29, 1707. Cf. Sewall, Samuel. The diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, ed. by M. Halsey Thomas, New York, 1973, v. 1, p. 570-571.

Text in two columns.

Bristol B309

Shipton & Mooney 39456

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 307

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 286