Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Percy Society, Vol. 1: Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages
The following Ballads are reprinted from the original broadsides, which were published at various dates between the middle of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Nearly all of them are from the only existing copies; and of the few which are not absolutely unique.
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