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.

Morality - Romantic/sexual   Kerr, Nancy  

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36 A Courtly new ballad of the Princely wooing of the/ fair Maid of London by King Edward [Euing 51]
72 A Lamentable Ballad of Fair Rosamond, King Henry the Second’s Concubine,/ Who was put to death by Queen Elinor, in Woodstock Bower near Oxford [Pepys 1.498-99]
83 The dying tears of a true Lover forsaken,/ Made on his Death=bed [Euing 64]
95 A new Ballad of the Souldier and Peggy [Roxburghe 1.370-71]
113 A New little Northren Song called,/ Under and over, over and under [Pepys 1.264-65]

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