The Pepys Ballads. Volume I The Pepys Ballads, Volume 1: 1535-1625: Numbers 1-45

Only brief selections have previously been printed from the great ballad collection of the famous diarist Samuel Pepys, which accordingly is almost unknown except to a few students. In the present edition six volumes will be devoted to a complete reprint, with full explanatory introductions and notes of all the hitherto unprinted topical and historical ballads (1535-1702) in the collection. These first two volumes make accessible all the early ballads (1535-1640) that have not been printed elsewhere, and offer much interesting material to students of English literature, Elizabethan drama, and English history. So far as poetry is concerned, these two volumes have not been equalled by any similar collection of broadside ballads. Among the poets represented are Martin Parker George Wither, Richard Barnfield, William Basse, and Sir Edward Dyer. PREFACE CONTENTS I Luther, the Pope, a cardinal, a husbandman 2 The battle of Agincourt 3 The cruelty of Gernutus 4 Londons lottery 5 The good shepherd's sorrow 6 Saint Georges commendation 7 I have fresh cheese and cream 8 Room for company 9 A young mans opinion 10 A maidens lamentation 11 The Northamptonshire lover 12 Corydon` s commendation 13 The shepherd's lamentation 14 A love-sick maid's song 15 The cuckoos commendation 16 A jovial tinker 17 Pity s lamentation 18 The drunkard's dial 19 I would you never had said so 20 A caveat or warning 21 The two faithful friends 22 The French whipper 23 A merry progress to London 24 ɟoan is as good as my lady 25 The lover`s gift 26 The faithful lover`s resolution 27 The loving forester 28 The lover`s lamentation 29 The flattering lover`s farewell 30 A lover`s newest coranto 31 A mad crew 32 Byd y bugail 33 The silver age 34 The golden age 35 The king and queen of Bohemia 36 A scourge for the Pope 37 My mind to me a kingdom is 38 The countryman`s chat 39 Dice, wine, and women 40 The scornful maid 41 Good sir, you wrong your breeches 42 A very pleasant new ditty 43 A rich widow`s wooing 44 A warning for all good fellows 45 Hockley in the hole Rollins Hyder Edward : Hyder Edward Rollins was Professor of English at Harvard University.