An excellent ballad of a prince of Englands courtship, to the King of France's daughter, and how the prince was disasterously slain; and how the aforesaid princess was afterwards married to a forrester. To the tune of, Crimson velvet, &c.

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PML 3469.11
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Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.
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[London] : Printed by and for A. M[ilbourn]. and sold by the booksellers of London, [between 1684 and 1695?]
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1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations (woodcut) ; (full-sheet)
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Anonymous. By Thomas Deloney.
Publication date suggested by the English Broadside ballad archive.
Printed in 5 columns in black letter; with three woodcuts of (from left to right) a bust portrait of a man facing right crowned with laurels; a man and a woman in a landscape, holding hands; a cornucopia ornament with floral and foliate elements.

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Excellent ballad of a prince of England's courtship, to the King of France's daughter

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Broadside
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