An Excellent new ballad, to the tune of How unhappy is Phillis in love
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms at the Royal Exchange, and are to be sold by Langley Curtis in Goatham Court on Ludgate-hill
Published: 1681
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: English Political satire; Early works to 1800; English Ballads; English Folk songs
Notes: A satire on the Earl of Shaftesbury.

By Thomas D'Urfey; included in the collection of his songs in "Wit and mirth, or, Pills to purge melancholy", v.2, 1719, with title "Old Tony".

In two columns.

First line of verse: Let Oliver now be forgotten

In this edition there is no comma following "Tune of" in title; it has: "Printed", "Stationers", "Ludgate-hill" and a colon after "1681" in the imprint; the first line of imprint ends "and are to be"; second line of verse: "His policy's quite out of dores;". Stanza 6, line 1 is misspelled "Poclamation".

Cf. Wing (2nd ed.), E3806.

ESTC R32948