The Happy man

Poetry and prose. Printed area: 27.6 x 21.7 cm. Printed in one, two and three columns divided where necessary by double lines and line of type ornaments; within border of three kinds of type ornament. Type ornaments similar to nos. 497, 498 and 642 in Dictionary of colonial American printers' ornaments by E.C. Reilly, all used in several cities before 1800. Date from general appearance and type face. Allegorical characterization of the happy man and his "brother" the true gentleman, each followed by four six-line stanzas possibly from the same hymn; the prose is found in 18th-century broadsides from Salem, New York and Danbury, Conn. This edition not in Evans, Bristol, or Shaw & Shoemaker; also not in Ford, W. C. Broadsides. In third column, a poem in four four-line stanzas. At end of text: Price 4 cents. First line: The Happy Man was born in the city of Regeneration, and Repentance unto Life. He was educated in the school of. First line of first poem: My race is run. First line of second poem: Then see him rise. First line of third poem: The glorious wish'd for day is come.