A woman sitting at an organ; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving, 16--.
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The verse tells of how 'the lye' came to lodge in the ear. A painting showing three stags in a wood hangs on the wall
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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 13.3 cm
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Trueth and a lye did each a lodging lack,/ And to a gallants eare their course did take:/ Trueth was put by, (being but meanly clad)/ And in the eare, the lye the lodging had.
References note
A.M. Hind, M. Corbett and M. Norton, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, part III, Cambridge 1964, pp. 247-248
Reference
Wellcome Collection 27055i
Notes
For two other prints in this series see record nos. 27049i and 27059i in this catalogue. Possibly by George Glover, though the description by Hind is not precise enought to identify them securely with Glover's series
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