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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15 The Lamentable and Tragicall History of Titus An-/dronicus [Folger L252a]
24 An Excellent Ballad, intituled, The Constancy of/ Susanna [Bodleian Douce 1 (30a)]
55 A Warning to all lewd Livers./ By the Example of a disobedient Child [Roxburghe 3.262-63]
59 Flora's farewell: Or,/ The Shepherds Love-passion Song [Euing 121]
73 The lamentable fall of Queen Elenor, who for her Pride/ and wickedness by Gods judgements sunk into the ground at Charing=Cross and rose at/ Queen hive [Euing 184]
78 John ARMSTRONG's Last Good-Night [Pepys 2.133]
79 Win at first, lose at last; or, a New Game at Cards [Bodleian Wood 401 (149v-150r)]
80 The wofull lamentation of Edward Smith, a poore penitent/ prisoner in the Jayle of Bedford [Roxburghe 1.367]
85 A new Ballad, intituled, The stout Cripple of Cornwal [Euing 242]
88 An excellent song, wherein you shall find,/ Great consolation for a troubled mind [Pepys 2.63]
93 Ragged, and Torne, and True./ Or, the poore mans Resoltion [Roxburghe 1.352-53]
98 The Nightingales Song; Or The Souldiers rare Musick,/ and Maids Recreation [Pepys 4.41]
103 A Friends advice:/ In an excellent Ditty, concerning the variable Changes in this World [Roxburghe 1.116-17]
108 The Wandring Jews Chronicle [Pepys 1.482-83]
114 The Woman to the PLOW;/ And the Man to the HEN-ROOST [Euing 397]

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