O list to my Ditty, a Ditty most sad- / A Couple at Hampton were near to run mad... [manuscript], 18th century.
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O list to my Ditty, a Ditty most sad- / A Couple at Hampton were near to run mad... [manuscript], 18th century.
Description
2 leaves ; x x x cm
Scope and content
Garrick’s rollicking and moderately bawdy ballad about dirty linen evidently has an autobiographical setting - Hampton being Garrick’s own house. The theme is the distress of two ladies invited to his friend ‘Squire’ Rigby’s seat at Mistly who have no clean linen (“They would not be wellcome unless they went neat...”) and ending (“...in such a sweet paradise with such a Man”/Let us all in short aprons be Adams & Eves/ And a fig for all cov’ring but that of fig leaves.")
Note
Listed in Mary E. Knapps A Checklist of Verse by David Garrick, 1955.
Accompanied by an old auction description of (i.e. this item possible was sold as) lot 445 at Sotheby's, London sale, 19-20 July 1954.
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Accompanied by an old auction description of (i.e. this item possible was sold as) lot 445 at Sotheby's, London sale, 19-20 July 1954.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
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Poems.
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Manuscripts (documents)
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FAST ACC 271822 (flat)
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Purchase made possible by The Mary and David S. Wolff Endowment Fund.