A godly warning for all maidens, by the example of God's judgment shew'd upon one Jerman's wife of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, who, lying in child-bed was born away, and never heard of after. To the tune of, The lady's fall.

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Accession number: 
PML 3469.73
Uniform title: 
Bateman's tragedy.
Published: 
[London?] : [printer not identified], [between 1699 and 1704]
Description: 
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration (woodcut) ; 22 x 34 cm
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Printed in four columns in roman type, with a rule of type ornaments above the two columns at right; woodcut in three panels illustrating Bateman's tragedy, including (at upper left) Bateman's suicide by hanging, (upper right) a man and woman representing his lover with another man, and (below) Bateman's ghost standing in a shroud at the foot of the couple's bed, as a demon carries away his faithless lover at left.
Also published with the titles 'Bateman's tragedy' and 'Young Bateman's ghost'.
In this edition line 1 of title ends: "maidens".
Standard tune: In Peascod Time.

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First lines: You dainty dames so finely fram'd, / of Beauty's chiefest Mold

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