An excellent new song, call'd, The lady's policy; or, The baffled knight. To a pleasant new tune

All titles
  • An excellent new song, call'd, The lady's policy; or, The baffled knight. To a pleasant new tune
  • Lady's policy; Baffled knight
People / Organizations
  • Thomas Moore ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")
Imprint
London : printed and sold by T. Moore, 1693.
Added name
Moore, Thomas, active 1677-1700, printer, bookseller.; Crimsal, Richard, attributed name.
Publication year
1693
ESTC No.
R176871
Grub Street ID
69223
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1/2°.
Note
Verse - "There was a knight was drunk with wine,"

Consists of 17 stanzas of four lines each; later versions (probably from 1725 onward), mostly pubished with title "The baffled knight", add a further 46 stanzas and are printed on oblong folio leaves

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 5, p. 169, and the EBBA record (which attributes authorship to Richard Crimsal).
Uncontrolled note
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