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.

Emotions - Love   Kirkpatrick, John   Bodleian Library, Oxford University   University Of Glasgow  

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6 A most sweet Song of an English Merchant,/ borne at Chichester [Roxburghe 1.104-05]
48 A pretty Ballad of the Lord of Lorn, and the false Steward [Pepys 1.494-95]
64 A PATTERN of true LOVE to you I will recite,/ Between a Beautiful Lady and a Courtious Knight [Roxburghe 2.579]