The Speech of Death to Levi Ames
Subtitle: Who was executed on Boston-Neck, October 21, 1773, for the crime of burglary
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42508
Publisher: Printed by John Boyle
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Death; Poetry; Executions and executioners; Crime; Burglary
Other titles: I Death, poor Ames, pronounce your fate.
Notes: Verse of seventy lines; first line: I Death, poor Ames, pronounce your fate.

Relief cut depicting a skeleton conversing with a man (Reilly 1195) was executed by Paul Revere for John Boyle in 1773; cf. Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings, Worcester, 1954, p. 136.

Text in two columns.

Bristol B3647

Shipton & Mooney 42508

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1647

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 787