Item Description: | Bristol, B794. - English Short Title Catalog, W31837. - Ford suggests the original to be "a modern imprint, modelled on an old form, which may have been contemporaneous with the event." However, typography suggests that the broadside was printed in 1729. - Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 567. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - Shipton & Mooney, 39923. - Stoddard's death date is given according to the new style calendar. - Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border. - Verse of ninety-five lines; first line: On morning wings what man 'fore death 'ere flies. Signed: Haec composuit Joseph Nash |