A funeral elegy by way of a dialogue; between Death, Soul, Body and Jesus Christ

A funeral elegy by way of a dialogue; between Death, Soul, Body and Jesus Christ / Composed by Edmund Weld, formerly of Harvard College, who moving hence into Ireland, became a preacher of the gospel at Inniskean, there; who upon the mediation and apprehension of his own death (which was soon after, the second of March 1785 [i.e., 1668]) made this following poem, which was sent hither in a letter from his widow, there living, for the benefit of the people of Massachusetts, in America.

Author/creator	Weld, Edmund, 1631-1668
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Springfield, (Massachusetts.) : Printed at the Chronicle printing-office [publisher not identified]. (For the purchasers.), [1790?]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ--Poetry. Death--Poetry.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46101. ^A478749
General note	Dialogue in verse; first line, spoken by Death: Ho, ho prepare to go with me.
General note	Several earlier editions of this poem, with varying titles, were printed between 1720 and 1763. For the earliest recorded edition, cf. Bristol B575.
General note	Dated [1790] by Ford and Bristol. However, the Hampshire chronicle was published by a series of printers, from March 6, 1787, to September 6, 1796, and no evidence has been found to support a particular year of publication.
General note	Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title and imprint transcriptions.
General note	Text in three columns.
References	Bristol B7619
References	Shipton & Mooney 46101
References	Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2603
References	Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 419
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46101).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Dialogues.
Genre/form	Elegies.

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