Seventeenth century

Title page of The Roaring Girle, or Moll Cut-Purse, 1611

Title page of The Roaring Girle, or Moll Cut-Purse, 1611
Title page of The Roaring Girle, or Moll Cut-Purse, 1611. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View full size
From
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-Purse
Printed
London: Nicholas Okes for Thomas Archer, 1611
Image from
Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Boston Public Library (Thomas Pennant Barton collection)
Used in
☞ “Cut XLIX, Thug Lyfe (Moll Cutpurse)”

Moll Cutpurse in breeches with sword and pipe, her famous backward hand and all.

Shaped: Cut XLIX, Thug Lyfe (Moll Cutpurse).

Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.

Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-Purse (London: Nicholas Okes for Thomas Archer, 1611), the work of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Boston Public Library (Thomas Pennant Barton collection). Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.

Cite the original
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker.
The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-Purse.
London: Nicholas Okes for Thomas Archer, 1611.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Boston Public Library (Thomas Pennant Barton collection),
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Roaring_Girle,_or_Moll_Cut-Purse_(1611).jpg.

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