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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 • 37289

  1701-1709 ?

  A True Relation of the Life and Death of Sir Andrew Barton, / a Pyrate and Rover on the Seas.

  Tune, Come follow my Love, &c.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37383

  1689-1695 ?

  WILLIAM GRISMOND['s Downfal;] / Or, A Lamentable Murther by him committed at Lainterdine, / in the County of Hereford, on March 12th, 1650: Together with / his Lamentation.

  To the Tune of, Where is my Love, &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 • 37488

  1640-1674 ?

  A Merry Dialogue / BETWEEN A / Doctor and a Dairy Maid. / This Doctor being deeply foxifi'd / As he along the Road did chance to ride / He overtook a Lass that he did like / And thought that she would …

  To the Tune of Butter Boxes curse the day, or, a Fig for France, &c.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37492

  1640-1674 ?

  Jockey's Farewel to Jenny / OR / The Scottish loath to depart. / Stout Jockey must now to the Warrs be gon. / And leave poor Jenny for to weep and mourn. / Her strong perswations could not move his h …

  To an excellent new Tune, or General Monk sail'd through the Gun-Fleet.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37499

  1680-1690 ?

  A Merry Discourse between / Billy and his Mistris.

  To the Tune of, Lye still my dear Shepherd.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37500

  1678-1688 ?

  The Dubd Knight / Of the Forked Order: / OR, / The Old Wanton Lady as I will recite, / And Sen John the Serving-Man her hearts delight, / Their doings and actions, if you will attend, / In Meeter they …

  The Tune is, I am fallen away.

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  British Library - Bagford • 37588

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  THE / Quakers Farewel to England, / OR / Their Voyage to New Jersey, scituate on the Continent of Virginia, / and bordering upon New England.

  To the Tune of, The Independents Voyage to New England.

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