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  British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads • 37655

  1681-1684 ?

  The Politick Countreyman. / Plainly setting forth the many misfortunes of those men who have / mist of their aims in choosing a wife, also discovering the vast difference be- / tween the London Mistri …

  Tune of, Hey boys up go we, Or, Jenny Gin.

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  National Library of Scotland - Crawford • 32683

  1672-1702 ?

  The Politick Maids Device; / OR, / The Maidens Distrust in CUPID's Play. / Here Counsel is to all the rest, / Of Maidens fair, to chuse the best; / And let the worst of Young-men stay a while, / They …

  The Tune is, What shall a Young-woman do with an Old-man, Or, Digby's Farewell.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 21178

  1671-1702 ?

  The Politick Maids Device; / OR, / The Maids distrust in CUPID's play. / Here Counsel is to all the rest, / Of Maidens fair to chuse the best, / And let the worst of Youg-men stay a while, / They are …

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  British Library - Roxburghe • 30230

  1633-1652 ?

  The praise of Brotherhood: / OR, / A description of Hoodes writ in Verse, not in Prose / Shewing which best becomes the Nose.

  To the tune of Abington Fayre.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 20196

  1630?

  The praise of Sailors, heere set forth, with their hard / fortunes which doe befall them on the Seas, when / Land-men sleepe safe in their Beds.

  To a pleasant new tune.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 20701

  1692

  The Present State of England: / CONTAINING / The Poor Man's Complaint in a Land of PLENTY; / Occasioned by the many Abuses offer'd by the Ingrossers of Corn, and likewise Brandy- / Stillers, which mak …

  To the Tune of, O Folly, Desperate Folly, &c.

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  Magdalene College - Pepys • 22390

  1692

  The Rampant Taylor, / OR THE / Nineteen Lasses in Distress

  To the Tune of, March, Boys, &c.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37453

  1688-1709 ?

  The Rarest BALLAD that ever was seen, / Of the Blind BEGGAR's DAUGHTER of Bednal-green.

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  Society of Antiquaries of London - Broadsides • 36324

  1613?

  The Royall Line of Kings, Queenes, and Princes, from the vniting of the two Royall Houses, Yorke, and Lancaster.

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  Beinecke Library - Michell-Jolliffe • 35867

  1685?

  The Scornful Maid, and the Constant / Young-Man. / With mocks and taunts she doth him jear, / As in this ditty you may hear; / Yet no denyal he would have, / But still her favour he did crave: / Yet a …

  Tune of, Times Changling I will never be: Or, Sawny, Or, A Fig for France.

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