English Ballads

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  A true relation of one Susan Higges

  The worthy London prentice
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  A true and Tragical SONG, concerning Captain JOHN BOLTON,

  Fair Lady lay your costly Robes aside
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  A Triumph for true Subiects, and a Terrour vnto al Traitours:
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  A Terror for TRAITORS

  Packington's Pound
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  A song, on the loss of the Comus & Harpooner transports
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  A Song, on the Confession and Dying Words of William Stevenson,

  Since Caelia's my Foe
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  A SONG on the Murder of Mr. HAYES

  Chevy Chase
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  A SONG of the Light of the three Nations turn'd into DARKNES

  Cavalilly-man
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  A solemn copy of verses
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  A Serious copy of Verses on the late Miss Wray.
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  A proper newe Ballad, declaring the substaunce of all the late pretended Treasons against the Queenes Maiestie, and Estates of this Realme, by sundry Traytors:

  Wilsons new tune
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  A proper new Ballad, breefely declaring the Death and Execution of I4.

  Weep, weep
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  A newe ballade made of Thomas Crumwel, called ‘Trolle on away.’

  Half Hannikin
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  A newe balade made by Nicholas Balthorp which suffered in Calys the .xv. daie of marche. MDL.
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  A new Spanish tragedy

  The angel Gabriel
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  A new song, on the loss of his majesty's ships, the Talbot and Soldan
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  A new song on the Venerable
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  A new song on the melancholy loss of the emigrant ship, Anglo-Saxon. On her passage to America
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  A new song on the Mannings

  The Wife's Dream
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  A New made MEDLY Compos'd out of sundry SONGS, For Sport and Pastime for the most ingenious Lovers of Wit and Mirth.

  State and Ambition
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  A New BALLAD. The Triumph of Justice. Being the Last SPEECH and CONFESSION of Nine Malefactors, and Betrayers of the Lives and Liberties of the Good People of ENGLAND. But few Examples here are made Of such as have our Laws betray'd: The rest that have as ill Deserv'd For the next Sessions are Reserv'd.

  Packington's Pound
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  A New Ballad of Three Merry Butchers AND Ten High-Way Men, how three Butchers went to pay Five Hundred Pounds away, and hearing a Woman crying in a Wood, went to relieve her, and was there set upon by these Ten High-Way Men, and how only stout Johnson fought with them all, who kill'd Eight of the Ten, and last was kill'd by the Woman whom he went to save out of the Wood.
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  A new Ballad intituled, the stout Cripple of Cornwall, wherein is shewed his dissolute life and deserved death.

  The blind beggar
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  A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing
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  A most ioyfull Songe, made in the behalfe of all her Maiesties faithfull and louing Subiects: of the great ioy, which was made in London. at the taking of the late trayterous Conspirators, which sought oportunity to kyll her Maiesty, to spoyle the Cittie, and by forraigne inuasion to ouerrun the Realme: for the which haynous Treasons, fourteen of them haue suffred death on the 20. &, 21. of Sept. Also, a detestation against those Conspira|tors, and all their Confederates, giuing God the prayse for the safe preseruation of her maiesty, and their subuersion. Anno. Domini. 1586.

  O man in desperation