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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9 A Lamentable Ballad of the Ladies Fall [Roxburghe 3.148-49]
15 The Lamentable and Tragicall History of Titus An-/dronicus [Folger L252a]
48 A pretty Ballad of the Lord of Lorn, and the false Steward [Pepys 1.494-95]
94 An Excellent Ditty, called the Shepherds wooing Dulcina [Roxburghe 2.402-03]
114 The Woman to the PLOW;/ And the Man to the HEN-ROOST [Euing 397]
115 The Crafty MISS:/ Or, An Excise man well fitted [Pepys 3.274]
120 The Happy Husbandman:/ OR,/ Country Innocence [Pepys 3.45]

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