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  Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads • 36100

  1585?

  [?] / benefactor, the worthy E[a]rle of Bedford.

  To the tune of Light of Loue.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21902

  1663-1674

  [?] / OR / The Good Fellows Frolick / BEING / The Jovial Companions Pastime. / He takes no care to hoard up Wealth and Treasure, / But is resolv'd to spend his time in pleasure: / So he but get good L …

  To a new Tune, Or, leave the World behind us.

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  Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads • 36014

  1650?

  [?]g[?] / By the directions of the Scriptures, and the examples of our blessed Lord / and Saviour Jesus Christ. Written for the good of all sorts of peo- / ple, both rich and poore, in this miserable …

  To the Tune of Ayme not too high.

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  National Library of Scotland - Crawford • 33052

  1688-1709 ?

  [A Pleasant] BALLAD of King HENRY the Second, and the Miller of / Mansfield, and how he was Entertained and Lodged at the Miller's House, and of their / pleasant Communication.

  To the Tune of, The French Levalto, &c.

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  Huntington Library - Britwell • 32229

  1584-1627 ?

  [A pleasant] new ballad of the mery Miller of Mansfield in Sherwood,[and of King Henry the second, and how he] / was lodged in the Millers house, and of their pleasant communication.

  To the tune of the French Lauato

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  British Library - Roxburghe • 31397

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  [An excellent ballad, of a prince of England’s courtship to the King of France’s daughter. And how the] Prince was disasterously slain, and how the aforesaid Princess was afterwards mar- …

  To the Tune of Crimson Velvet.

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  British Library - Roxburghe • 31074

  1696-1709 ?

  [A] pleasant New Ballad to sing Ev'ning and Morn, / [Of the bl]oody MURTHER of Sir JOHN BARLEY-CORN.

  To the Tune of, Shall I lye beyond thee, &c.

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  National Library of Scotland - Crawford • 33407

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  [CUPID's R]EVENGE. / [Or, an account of a King] who slighted all Women, and / [at length was forced t]o marry a BEGGAR.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21905

  1678-1680

  [Joan's ale is new] / [?][Medl]y, shewing the power, the strength, the operation, and the ver- / tue that remains in good Ale, which is accounted the Mother-drink of England. / All you that do this me …

  To a pleasant New Northern Tune.

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  British Library - Roxburghe • 30340

  1640?

  [The] Shepheard and the King, and of Gillian the Shepheards VVife, with her / Churlish answers: being full of mirth and merry pastime.

  To the tune of Flying Fame.

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