Top pop from seventeenth-century England. Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here. See also User’s Guide.

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48 A pretty Ballad of the Lord of Lorn, and the false Steward [Pepys 1.494-95]
57 The Shepherd and the King, and of Gillian the Shepherds Wife, with her churlish Answer [Euing 332]
59 Flora's farewell: Or,/ The Shepherds Love-passion Song [Euing 121]
114 The Woman to the PLOW;/ And the Man to the HEN-ROOST [Euing 397]

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