A Few lines on occasion of the untimely end of Mark and Phillis
Subtitle: who were executed at Cambridge, September 18th for poysoning their master, Capt. John Codman of Charlestown
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 7415
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Fleet?
Published: 1755
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Poetry; Slaves; Executions and executioners; Murder; Crime
Other titles: What sad and awful scenes are these.
Notes: Verse in fourteen numbered stanzas; first line: What sad and awful scenes are these.

Printer's name suggested in Winslow, O.E. American broadside verse, 1930, p. 86. The execution took place Sept. 18, 1755.

Text in two columns separated by a mourning border; relief cut of an execution.

Evans 7415

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1008

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 588