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Take time while 'tis offerd : For Tom has broke his word with his sweeting, and lost a good wife for an houres meeting, another good-fellow has gotten the lasse, and Tom may go shake his long eares like an asse. To the tune of Within the north country.
M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?Date: [1634]
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A discourse of mans life : Comparing him to things that quickly passe, as bubble, shuttle, blossome, streame, and grasse. To the tune of Ayme not too high.
Date: [1629?]
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The cooper of Norfolke: or, A pretty iest of a brewer and the coopers wife: and how the cooper served the brewer in his kind : To the tune of, The wiving age.
M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?Date: [1630?]
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A bill of fare : for, a Saturday nights supper, a Sunday morning breakfast, and a Munday dinner, described in a pleasant new merry ditie. To the tune of Cooke Laurell, or, Michaelmas terme.
M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?Date: [1637]
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The Brides burial : The tune is, The ladies fall.
Date: [between 1663-1674]
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A pleasant new ballad betweene King Edward the fourth, and a tanner of Tamworth : as hee rode vpon a time with his nobles on hunting, towards Drayton Basset.
Date: [1630?]
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Cuckolds haven: or, The marry'd mans miserie : who must abide the penaltie of being hornify'd: hee unto his neighbours doth make his case knowne, and tels them all plainly, the case is their owne. To the tune of, the Spanish gipsie.
Date: [1638]
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Two unfortunate lovers, or, a true relation of the lamentable end of Iohn True, and Susan Mease : their lives thiss ditty doth relate, and how they dy'd unfortunate. To the tune of, The brides buriall.
Date: [1640?]
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Beautys overthrow: or, The rejoyc'd libertine : When pride and beauty do together meet, they make that bitter which would else be sweet: the fervent lover when too much abus'd, bids love farewel, desires to be excus'd. To a new play-house, called; Cloah your pride abate.
Date: [1680?]
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The mad-merry prankes of Robbin Good-fellow : To the tune of Dulcina.
Date: [1625?]
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The discontented married man. Or, A merry new song that was pend in foule weather, of a scould that could not keep her lips together : To the tune of, Shee cannot keepe her &c.
Date: [1640?]
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The True manner of the Kings tryal at Westminster-Hall, by the high Court of Justice : from the twentieth day of January 1649, to the seven and twentieth of the same month. Also the true manner of his being put to death at White-hall, near the Banqueting House the 30 of January, with his speech made upon the scaffold before hee was beheaded. To the tune of, Aim not too high.
Date: [1650]
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The lamentation of Master Pages wife of Plimmouth : who being enforced by her parents to wed him against her will, did most wickedly consent to his murther, for the love of George Strangwidge; for which fact she suffered death at Barstable in Devonshire. VVritten with her owne hand a little before her death. To the tune of Fortune my foe.
Thomas DeloneyDate: [1635?]
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Renowned Robin Hood: or, His famous archery truly related : with the worthy exploits he acted before Queen Katherine, he being an out-law man, and how she for the same obtained of the king, his owne, and his fellowes pardon. To a new tune.
Date: [1630?]
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A lamentable ditty composed upon the death of Robert Lord Devereux, late Earle of Essex : who was beheaded in the Tower of London on Ash Wednesday in the morning 1600 : To the tune of Welladay.
Date: [1670?]
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The St. Giles's frolick, or a smith's ramble for new adventures.
Date: [1720?]
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Two pleasant ditties, one of the birth, the other of the passion of Christ : To the tune of Dulcina. Of Natiuity.
Date: [1629]
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An Askew, intituled, I am a woman poor and blind ; A rare example of a vertuous maid in Paris.
Date: [1695?]
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[The] complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of [Fev]ersham in Kent : who for the loue of one Mosbie, hired certaine ruffians and villaines most cruelly to murder her husband; with the fatall end of her and her associats. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.
Date: [1633?]
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A worthy mirror, wherein you may marke, an excellent discourse of a breeding larke : by reading whereof, perceiue well you may, what trust is in friends or in kinsfolke to stay. To the tune of Rogero.
Bourcher, ArthurDate: [1630?]
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The lamentation of a new married man : briefely declaring the sorrow and grief that comes by warrying [sic] a young wanton wife to the tune of, Where is my true loue.
Date: [1629]
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The two inseparable brothers. Or A true and strange description of a gentleman (an Italian by birth) about seventeene yeeres of age : who hath an imperfect (yet living) brother, growing out of his side, having a head, two armes, and one leg, all perfectly to be seen. They were both baptized together, the imperfect is called Iohn Baptist, and the other Lazarus. Admire the Creator in his creatures. To the tune of The wandring Iewes chronicle.
M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?Date: [1637]
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The skilful doctor of Glocester-shire. Or, A new way to take physick : This ditty doth concern a country farmer, who lay with his maid, not thinking to harm her: but the poor wench, was by her master vil'd, first tempt to sin, and after got with child: but by the doctors skill, her honest dame, excus'd her husband, and sav'd her maid from blame: the doctor he hath medicines in store, to cure all sorts of folks, both rich and poor. The tune is, Beds making.
Date: [between 1663 and 1674]
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General Fielding's answer to the Dutchess of C----'s memorial : To the tune of, The dame of honour.
Date: [1707?]
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A godly ballad declaring by the Scriptures the plagues that haue insued whordome.
A. I., active 1566Date: Anno Domini 1566. Nouembris. 25. [1566]

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Take time while 'tis offerd : For Tom has broke his word with his sweeting, and lost a good wife for an houres meeting, another good-fellow has gotten the lasse, and Tom may go shake his long eares like an asse. To the tune of Within the north country.

A discourse of mans life : Comparing him to things that quickly passe, as bubble, shuttle, blossome, streame, and grasse. To the tune of Ayme not too high.

The cooper of Norfolke: or, A pretty iest of a brewer and the coopers wife: and how the cooper served the brewer in his kind : To the tune of, The wiving age.

A bill of fare : for, a Saturday nights supper, a Sunday morning breakfast, and a Munday dinner, described in a pleasant new merry ditie. To the tune of Cooke Laurell, or, Michaelmas terme.

The Brides burial : The tune is, The ladies fall.

A pleasant new ballad betweene King Edward the fourth, and a tanner of Tamworth : as hee rode vpon a time with his nobles on hunting, towards Drayton Basset.

Cuckolds haven: or, The marry'd mans miserie : who must abide the penaltie of being hornify'd: hee unto his neighbours doth make his case knowne, and tels them all plainly, the case is their owne. To the tune of, the Spanish gipsie.

Two unfortunate lovers, or, a true relation of the lamentable end of Iohn True, and Susan Mease : their lives thiss ditty doth relate, and how they dy'd unfortunate. To the tune of, The brides buriall.

Beautys overthrow: or, The rejoyc'd libertine : When pride and beauty do together meet, they make that bitter which would else be sweet: the fervent lover when too much abus'd, bids love farewel, desires to be excus'd. To a new play-house, called; Cloah your pride abate.

The mad-merry prankes of Robbin Good-fellow : To the tune of Dulcina.

The discontented married man. Or, A merry new song that was pend in foule weather, of a scould that could not keep her lips together : To the tune of, Shee cannot keepe her &c.

Renowned Robin Hood: or, His famous archery truly related : with the worthy exploits he acted before Queen Katherine, he being an out-law man, and how she for the same obtained of the king, his owne, and his fellowes pardon. To a new tune.

A lamentable ditty composed upon the death of Robert Lord Devereux, late Earle of Essex : who was beheaded in the Tower of London on Ash Wednesday in the morning 1600 : To the tune of Welladay.

The St. Giles's frolick, or a smith's ramble for new adventures.

Two pleasant ditties, one of the birth, the other of the passion of Christ : To the tune of Dulcina. Of Natiuity.

An Askew, intituled, I am a woman poor and blind ; A rare example of a vertuous maid in Paris.

[The] complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of [Fev]ersham in Kent : who for the loue of one Mosbie, hired certaine ruffians and villaines most cruelly to murder her husband; with the fatall end of her and her associats. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.

A worthy mirror, wherein you may marke, an excellent discourse of a breeding larke : by reading whereof, perceiue well you may, what trust is in friends or in kinsfolke to stay. To the tune of Rogero.

The lamentation of a new married man : briefely declaring the sorrow and grief that comes by warrying [sic] a young wanton wife to the tune of, Where is my true loue.

General Fielding's answer to the Dutchess of C----'s memorial : To the tune of, The dame of honour.

A godly ballad declaring by the Scriptures the plagues that haue insued whordome.