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  British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads • 37728

  1683-1703 ?

  The DAMOSELS Tragedy: / OR, True Love in Distress. / Being an account of a young Man, who Slighting a young / Maiden who had fix'd her love upon him, did thereby cause her to end her days in / Dispair …

  To the Tune of, Charon, &c.

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  British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads • 37769

  1684-1695 ?

  The Mad Man's Morice; or, / A warning for young-men to have a care, / How they in Love intangled are: / Wherein by experience you shall find, / His trouble and grief with discontent of mind.

  To a pleasant new Tune.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37454

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  [The S]econd PART / OF / [Old Mother] Bunch of the West: / [C]ONTAINING / [RARI]TIES never before heard of, / [?] was pleas'd to break open the / [? cl]oset of CURIOSITIES, / [?]olute Advantage of all …

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  British Library - Bagford • 37475

  1688-1709 ?

  A Tragical Ballad on the Unfortunate LOVE / OF / Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, / TOGETHER / With the DOWNFAL of the Brown GIRL.

  To a pleasant Tune, call'd, Lord Thomas, &c.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37477

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  The GELDING of the DEVIL: / The prittiest JEST that e're was known, / How the Baker's Wife her Skill hath shown; / Then listen a while, and I the News will tell, / Betwixt the Baker and the Devil of H …

  Tune, Gelding the Devil, &c. or, The Card-players, &c.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37478

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  The Fryer Well-fitted: / OR, / A Pretty Jest that once befel, / How a Maid put a Fryer to cool in the Well.

  To a merry new Tune.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37479

  1688-1709 ?

  The Forlorn LOVER: / DECLARING HOW / A LASS gave her LOVER three Slips for a Tester, / And Married another a Week before EASTER.

  To a pleasant new Tune, &c.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37480

  1671-1702 ?

  THE / Destruction of Plain Dealing: / OR, / Poor Conscience cast out of Countenance by the unjust Practitioners of this present / Age; as, Clippers and counterfit Coiners, who strives to Wrong the Nat …

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

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  British Library - Bagford • 37481

  1686-1713 ?

  THE / WELSH Fortune-Teller, / OR, / Sheffery Morgan's Observation of the Stars, as he sat upon a Mountain in Wales.

  To the Tune of, Touch of the Times.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37482

  1674-1679 ?

  A New Ballad, called, / The Protestants Prophesie. / Wherein is Plainly set forth the Difficulty of Clearing our Native Country, of those that Infest / us, called PAPISTS.

  To the Tune of, When Covetousness out of England will run.

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