Seaman's Compass, The

DESCRIPTION: "As lately I travelled towards Gravesend, I heard a fair damosel a seaman commend." She praises seamen, saying that she will not marry anyone not a seaman. She describes how other trades are dependent on the work of sailors
AUTHOR: Laurence Price (source: Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1657 (broadside printed by Francis Grove, according to Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs)
KEYWORDS: sailor love marriage commerce
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Stone-SeaSongsAndBallads LXXV, pp. 144-149, "The Sea-mans Compass" (1 text)
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 16, "The Seaman's Compass" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V32237
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 4o Rawl. 566(64), The Sea-mans Compass,, F. Coles, T. Vere, J Wright (London), 1663-1674
NOTES [120 words]: Although Palmer -- very likely inspired by Stone-SeaSongsAndBallads -- attributes this to Lawrence/Laurence Price, a well-known seventeenth century writer of broadside ballads, A. W. Pollard, G. R. Redgrave, et al, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland & Ireland And of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640, The Bibliographical Society [of London], 1963, p. 467, does not list it among Price's known works. And of the sixteen pieces they list as by Price, not one is printed by Francis Grove, from Palmer lists as the printer. Of course, Palmer attributes this to a period after the STC. But the Rawlinson broadside, at least, attributes it simply to "L. P.," not to Price specifically. - RBW
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