Chap-books of the eighteenth century . The HIST ORY of. The Two Children in theW O O D. 2 B The most Lamentable and DeplorableHISTORY OF THE Two Children in the Wood : CONTAINING The happy Loves and Lives of their Parents,the Treachery and barbarous Villany of theirUnkle, the duel between the Murdering Ruffians,and the unhappy and deplorable death of thetwo innocent Children. As also an Account of the Justice of Godthat overtook the Unnatural Unkle; and of thedeserved Death of the two murdering Ruffians. TO WHICH IS ANNFXd THE OLD SONG UPON THE SAME London : Printed by and for , and sold by
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . The HIST ORY of. The Two Children in theW O O D. 2 B The most Lamentable and DeplorableHISTORY OF THE Two Children in the Wood : CONTAINING The happy Loves and Lives of their Parents,the Treachery and barbarous Villany of theirUnkle, the duel between the Murdering Ruffians,and the unhappy and deplorable death of thetwo innocent Children. As also an Account of the Justice of Godthat overtook the Unnatural Unkle; and of thedeserved Death of the two murdering Ruffians. TO WHICH IS ANNFXd THE OLD SONG UPON THE SAME London : Printed by and for , and sold by the Boo: SELLERS. The History of the Two Children in the Wood. 371 The date given to this rare and most interesting Chap-book is 1700, but though the frontispiece apparently points toan earUer date, it seems to have been executed specially forthis work, as the nearest approach to it, a ballad in the Bagford Collection (British Museum, 43> ^- JO\ v2iX\^^ from it in some 44slight particulars, and this is undoubtedly the finest engraving ofthe subjec
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