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Date
    [1827]
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[Ca]rrall, Printer, Walmgate, York


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Ballad - Roud Number: 1031

Title: Messenger of mortality; or, a dialogue between Death and the lady

First Line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside

Themes:  Mortality

Illustration

IconClass Codes:
44A3(+2)(GREAT BRITAIN): Flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ nation; national)
44B191: Crown (symbol of sovereignty)
42A3: Mother and baby or young child
41D267: Purse, money-bag
31F26(+3): Death as skeleton (+ Death with bow and arrow)
49G1: Physician, doctor
23U22: Hourglass
31F33: Death battling with Life, or with the living
49G81: Medicament, medicine
44B193: Orb (symbol of sovereignty; sphere with cross on top)

Printings:

Shelfmark: Douce adds. 137(85)

Notes:  MS. date below imprint.


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