Union First Line Index of English Verse

13^th-19^th Century (bulk 1500-1800)

First Line: At length by so much importunity prest

Author (Last name, First): Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762

Title: `The lover, a ballad addressed to Miss S[kerret]t [later Countess of Orford] by the same'

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Last Line: We harden like trees and like rivers are cold.

Library: YO

Shelfmark: fc.51

Folio: p. 53

Ref Nbr: Osborn A1813

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Gender: W

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Names Mentioned: Orford, Maria (Skerrett) Walpole, countess, c. 1702_1738
Orford, Robert Walpole, 1st earl, 1676_1745

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