The Virgin's Choice; or Youth preferred to Old Age. To which are added, Let Ambition Fire Thy Mind. Fidele's Tomb. Tarry Woo. Love and Despair. The Queen of France's Lamentation.

Let Ambition Fire Thy Mind

Fidele's Tomb

Tarry Woo

Love and Despair

The Queen of France's Lamentation

Glasgow: Printed by J. & M. Robertson

1800

8 pages

15 cm

A collection of ballads and songs on a variety of topics. The first is a short song about a young woman comparing the two men who are courting her, one old and rich and the other poor and young, which alludes to the common theme of the sexual insatiability of virgins. The second song urges shepherds to abandon their flocks and let ambition drive them to great success in life. The next is a lament on the death of the singer’s love, focusing on a description of her tomb. A popular song focusing on wool and the production of it follows, providing a portrait of a shepherd’s working life, emphasizing the superiority of rural life over living as a king. The following song focuses on the pain of love and the despair that inevitably follows rejection, while the last song is the pitiful lament of the Queen of France upon her imprisonment and the death of her husband

Ballads and songs

Courtship and Marriage

Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow

Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario

ESTC T179042

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