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In performing 16th and 17th century broadside ballads, we have carefully considered a number of factors that impact the interpretation of the ballad as song. It is impossible for us to know exactly how the ballads were sung during that time. What we do know about the vocal timbre and inflection of British ballad singing, as it has survived in contemporary tradition, comes from field recordings made in the mid 20th century. While these recordings inform our vocal production, we wanted to avoid imitation, especially in regards to accent, making pronunciation choices sometimes difficult. While we did not attempt to imitate English accents, we found that certain rhyme schemes and scansions worked better when we adopted archaic speech patterns. We chose to use a comfortable, “natural” speaking tone, tending towards clear articulation, with minimal ornamentation and vibrato, so as to not obscure the basic melody or text. In some cases we used conventional ornaments when we felt it would enhance the effect of the lyrics.

We also decided to record most of the ballads a cappella, for several reasons. Our primary purpose is to help people connect the ballad with the tune. A solo voice gives the most unadorned version of the melody possible, so as to clearly illustrate the connection between words and

music. While instrumental accompaniment was appropriate in many contexts, particularly in the theatrical ballads and jigs, the ballad tradition is a singer’s tradition, and we wanted to highlight the art of unaccompanied balladry. We have provided several examples of theatrical ballads, with tunes written or adapted by Henry Purcell, upon which we are accompanied on a virginal (a small harpsichord), to demonstrate a style of period accompaniment. By keeping our presentations simple and unadorned we sought to make the ballads as intelligible as possible.

There are only a handful of works on the tunes of the broadsides, starting with William Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Times, which laid the foundation upon which subsequent collections were built. Today, however, the most comprehensive and well-researched work is still Claude Simpson's The British Broadside Ballad and its Music (1966), which provides transcriptions of unadorned melodies, painstakingly researched and reconstructed, combined with detailed references to the historical sources of the tunes. We chose the tunes we did for a variety of reasons. In some cases, as in the Purcell tunes, we wanted to illustrate the theatrical style of broadside music.In other cases we chose tunes that were very common, such as “Fortune my Foe” or “Jasper Cunningham,” to show how different ballad texts bring out different aspects of the melody. In other cases we chose particular ballads with interesting subject matter, such as “Battle of the Birds,” which also happened to have a unique and beautiful tune. The eventual goal of this project is to provide sound recordings of every ballad for which there is a known tune, but since this is somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand ballads, for now we will provide a sampling that we hope will be interesting and useful to students and researchers.

Pepys 1.28-29 The historie of the Prophet Ionas./ The repentance of Niniuie that great Citie, which was 48. miles in compasse, hauing/ a thousand and fiue hundred Towers about the same, and at the time of his preaching/ there was a hundred and twenty thousand Children therein.

Pepys 1.30-31 The Iudgement of Salomon:/ In discerning the true Mother from the false, by her compas-/ sion, giuing sentence to diuide the Childe.

Pepys 1.32 A most excellent and famous Ditty of Sampson Iudge of Israell, how he wedded:/ Philistines Daughter, who at length forsooke him: also how he slew a Lyon, and/ propounded a Riddle, and after how he was falsely betrayed by Dalila, and of his death.

Pepys 1.36-37 A Prophesie of the Iudgment Day./ Being lately found in Saint Denis Church in France,/ and wrapped in Leade in the forme of an Heart.

Pepys 1.39 A comfortable new Ballad of a Dreame of a Sinner, being very sore/ troubled with the assaults of Sathan.

Pepys 1.44-45 The Lamenting Lady,/ Who for the wrongs done to her by a poore woman, for hauing two children at one burthen, was by the hand of God/ most strangely punished, by sending her as many children at one birth, as there are daies in the yeare, in re-/ membrance whereof, there is now a monument builded in the Citty of Lowdon, as many En-/ glish men now liuing in Lowdon, can truely testifie the same and hath seene it.


Pepys 1.50-51 Good Admonition/ Or/ To al sorts of people this counsell I sing,/ That in each ones affaire, to take heed's a faire thing.

Pepys 1.52-53 A Friends aduice:/ In an excellent Ditty, concerning the variable changes in this World.

Pepys 1.54 A new Ballad intituled, A Bell-man for England, which night and day doth sta/ ring in all mens hearing, Gods vengeance is at hand.

Pepys 1.56-57 DEATHS DANCE.

Pepys 1.60-61 A Scourge for the POPE,/ Satyrically scourging the itching sides of his obstinate/ Brood, in ENGLAND.

Pepys 1.64-65 A most sorrowfull Song, setting forth the miserable end of Banister, who/ betraied the Duke of Buckingham, his Lord and Master.

Pepys 1.66-67 Cheapsides Triumphs, and Chyrones/ Crosses Lamentation.

Pepys 1.68-69r The lamentable Burning of the Citty/ of Corke (in the Prouince of Munster in Ireland) by Lightning:/ which happened the Last of May, 1622. After the prodigious Battell of the Stares,/ which Fought most strangely ouer and neere that Citty, the 12. and 14. of/ May. 1621.


Pepys 1.70-71 A battell of Birds/ Most strangly fought in Ireland, vpon the eight day of September/ last, 1621. where neere vnto the Citty of Corke, by the riuer Lee,/ weare gathered together such a multytude of Stares, or Starlings, as/ the like for number, was never seene in any age.

Pepys 1.74-75 A wonder beyond mans expectation,/ In the preseruation of eight men in Greenland from one season to another,/ the like neuer knowne or heard of before, which eight men are come all safely from/ thence in this last Fleet, 1631. whose names are these, William Fakely Gunner, Edward Peliham Gun-/ ners Mate, Iohn Wise Robert Goodfellow Seamen, Thomas Ayers Whalecutter, Henry Rett Cooper,/ Iohn Dawes, Richard Kellet Land men.


Pepys 1.76-77 The Shepheard and the King, and of Gillian the Shepheards VVife, with her/ Churlish answers: being full of mirth and merry pastime.

Pepys 1.80-81 The mad-merry prankes of Robbin Good-fellow.

Pepys 1.82-83 The two faithfull Friends./ The pleasant History of Alexander and Lodwicke, who were so like one ano/ ther, that none could know them asunder: wherein is declared how Lodwike/ married the Princesse of Hungaria in Alexanders name, and how each night/ he layd a naked sword betweene him and the Princesse, because he/ would not wrong his friend.


Pepys 1.84-85 A proper new Ballad, intituled, The wandring Prince of Troy

Pepys 1.86 Titus Andronicus Complaint.

Pepys 1.88-89 A brave warlike Song./ Containing a briefe rehearsall of the deeds of Chivalry, perfor-/ med by the Nine VVorthies of the world, the seaven Champions of/ Christendome, with many other remarkable Warriours.

Pepys 1.90-91 A new Ballad, intituled, The Battell of Agen-Court, in France, betweene the/ English-men and Frenchmen.

Pepys 1.92-93 A memorable song vpon the vnhappy hunting in Cheuy Chase, beweene the Earle/ Pearcy of England, and Earle Dowglas of Scotland.

Pepys 1.96-97 Rochell her yeelding to the obedience of the French/ King, on the 28. of October 1628. after a long siege by Land and Sea,/ in great penury and want.

Pepys 1.98-99 Newes from Hollands Leager:/ OR,/ Hollands Leager is lately up broken,/ This for a certaine is spoken.

Pepys 1.100-101 The Ioyfull Peace, concluded betweene the King of Denmarke and the/ King of Sweden, by the meanes of our most worthy Soueraigne,/ Iames, by the grace of God, King of great Brittaine France/ and Ireland, &c.


Pepys 1.108-109 Murther vnmasked,/ OR/ BARNEVILES base Conspiracie against his owne Country, discouered: who/ vnnaturally complotted to surrender into the Arch-dukes power, these foure/ Townes,Vtreicht, Nimingham, Bergen-op-zome, and Brall: Together/ with his horrible intent to murther Graue Maurice, and others.

Pepys 1.110-111 Sir Walter Rauleigh his lamentation:/ Who was beheaded in the old Pallace at Westminster the 29./ of October. 1618.

Pepys 1.114-115 Iohn Spenser a Chesshire Gallant, his life/ and repentance, who for killing of one Randall Gam: was lately executed/ at Burford a mile from Nan twich.


Pepys 1.120-121 A warning for all desperate VVomen./ By the example of Alice Dauis who for killing of/ her husband was burned in Smithfield the/ 12 of Iuly 1628. to the terror of all the/ beholders.


Pepys 1.124-125 Anne VVallens Lamentation,/ For the Murthering of her husband Iohn Wallen a Turner in Cow-lane neere Smith-/ field; done by his owne wife, on satterday the 22 of Iune. 1616./ who was burnt in Smithfield the first of Iuly following.


Pepys 1.126-127 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 loue of George Strangwidge: for which fact/ she suffered death at Barstable in Deuonshire. Written with her owne hand a little before/ her death.


Pepys 1.128-129 The life and death of M. Geo: Sands, who after many enor-/ mous crimes by him committed, with Iones and Gent his confederates, was/ executed at Tyburne on Wednesday the 6 of September, 1626.


Pepys 1.130-131r The Araignement of Iohn Flodder and his wife,/ at Norwidge, with the wife of one Bicks, for burning the Towne of Windham/ in Norfolke, vpon the xi. day of Iune last 1615. Where two of them are/ now executed, and the third repriued vpon further confession.

Pepys 1.132-133 Damnable Practises/ Of three Lincolne-shire Witches, Joane Flower, and her two Daughters,/ Margret and Phillip Flower, against Henry Lord Rosse, with others the Children of the Right/ Honourable the Earle of Rutland, at Beauer Castle, who for the same were executed at Lincolne the 11. of/ March last.

Pepys 1.138-139 Constance of Cleueland./ A very excellent Sonnet of the most faire Lady Constance of Cleveland,/ and her disloyall Knight.


Pepys 1.148-149 A Looking glasse for Corne-hoorders,/ By the example of Iohn Russell a Farmer dwelling at St Peters/ Chassant in Buckingham shire, whose Horses sunke into the/ ground the 4 of March 1631.

Pepys 1.152-153 The Golden Age: Or, An Age of plaine-dealing

Pepys 1.154-155 The siluer Age,/ or, The VVorld turned backward.

Pepys 1.156-157 The Honest Age,/ OR/ There is honesty in all Trades;/ As by this Ditty shall appeare,/ Therefore attend and giue good eare.

Pepys 1.158-159 The Cheating Age:/ Or LEONARD of Lincolnes iourney to LONDON/ to buy Wit.

Pepys 1.160-161 Times Alteration: Or/ The Old Mans rehearsall, what brane dayes he knew,/ A great while agone, when this Old Cap was new.

Pepys 1.162-163 Pitties Lamentation for the cruelty of this age.

Pepys 1.166-167 Knauery in all Trades,/ OR,/ Here's an age would make a man mad.

Pepys 1.168-169 Roome for Companie, heere comes Good Fellowes.


Pepys 1.170-171 I tell you, John Iarret, you'l breake:/ OR,/ Iohn Iarrets wiues counsell to her husband, to haue care to his estate in this hard/ time, lest he turne Bankerout.

Pepys 1.178-179 A Fooles Bolt is soone shot./ Good Friends beware, I'me like to hit yee,/ What ere you be heer's that will fit yee;/ Which way soeuer that you goe,/ At you I ayme my Bolt and rowe.

Pepys 1.180-181 I would you neuer had said so,

Pepys 1.182-183 I Smell a Rat.

Pepys 1.186-187 A pleasant Countrey new Ditty:/ Merrily shewing how/ To driue the cold Winter away.

Pepys 1.190-191 Londons Lotterie:/ With an incouragement to the furtherance thereof, for the good of/ Virginia, and the benefite of this our natiue Countrie; wishing/ good fortune to all that venture in the same.

Pepys 1.200-201 Dice, Wine and Women/ OR/ The vnfortunate Gallant gull'd at London.

Pepys 1.204-205 Sure my Nurse was a witch,/ OR,/ The merry Night-wench./ Who when her child doth cry, merry to make him,/ Doth sing unto it, Come take him beggar, take him.


Pepys 1.206-207 Turners dish of Lentten stuffe, or a Galymaufery.

Pepys 1.210-211 Nevves good and nevv

Pepys 1.216-217r The Beggers Intrusion,/ Or the worlds Illusion.

Pepys 1.224-225 The merry Forrester./ Young men and maides, in Country or in City,/ I craue your aides with me to tune this Ditty,/ Both new, and true it is, no harme in this is,/ But is composed of the word cald, kisses./ Yet meant by none abroad loues to be gadding,

Pepys 1.228-229 A delicate new Ditty composed vpon the Posie of a Ring/ being, I fancy none but thee alone: sent as a Newyeeres Gift/ by a Louer to his Sweet-heart.

Pepys 1.230-231 A new Song of a Young mans opinion, of the diffe-/ rence betweene good and bad Women.

Pepys 1.236-237 Ione is as good as my Lady.

Pepys 1.238-239 The Pedler opening of his Packe,/ To know of Maydes what tis they lacke

Pepys 1.248-249 A merry Ballad of a rich Maid that had 18. seuerall Suitors/ of seuerall Countries: otherwise called the scornefull Maid.


Pepys 1.256-257 The faythfull Louers resolution,/ being forsaken of a coy and faythles Dame.


Pepys 1.258-259 A mery nevv Iigge./ Or, the pleasant wooing/ betwixt Kit and Pegge.

Pepys 1.262-263 A delicate nevv Song,/ Entituled, Sweet-heart, I loue thee.

Pepys 1.264-265 A New little Northren Song called,/ Vnder and ouer, ouer and vnder,/ Or a pretty new Ieast, and yet no wonder,/ Or a mayden mistaken, as many now bee,/ View well this glasse, and you may plainely see.


Pepys 1.268-269 The Countrey Lasse.

Pepys 1.274-275 Foure pence halfe penney Farthing:/ OR,/ A Woman will haue the Oddes.


Pepys 1.276-277 A mad kinde of wooing,/ Or, a Dialogue betweene Will the simple, and Nan the subtill,/ With their louing agreement.


Pepys 1.280-281 Good Sir, you wrong your Britches,/ Pleasantly discoursed by a witty Youth, and a wily Wench.


Pepys 1.296-297 The Discourse betweene/ A Souldier and his Loue./ Shewing that she did beare a faithfull minde,/ For Land nor Sea could make her stay behinde.

Pepys 1.300-301 A pleasant new Court Song,/ Betweene a young Courtier, and a Countrey Lasse,

Pepys 1.302-303 The Honest VVoer,/ His minde expressing in plaine and few tearmes/ By which to his Mistris his loue he confirmes.


Pepys 1.304-305 The witty VVesterne Lasse./ OR/ You maids that with your friends whole nights haue spent/ Beware of back-fallings; for feare of the event.


Pepys 1.310-311 A most pleasant Dialogue:/ OR/ A merry greeting betweene two louers,/ How Will and Nan did fall at strife,/ And at the last made man and wife.


Pepys 1.314-315 A good throw for three Maiden-heads./ Some say that mayden-heads are of high price,/ But here are three maids that haue lost theirs at dice.


Pepys 1.316-317 This Maide vvould giue tenne/ Shillings for a Kisse:


Pepys 1.324-325 The Northampton-shire Louer, or a pleasant Dialogue betweene a Northampton-/ shire Gentleman and a Marchants daughter of London.


Pepys 1.335 A Well-wishing to a place of Pleasure.

Pepys 1.344-345 Leanders loue to loyall Hero.

Pepys 1.350-351 A most excellent Song of the loue of young Palmus, and faire Sheldra, with their vnfortunate loue.


Pepys 1.352-353 The good Shepheards sorrow for the death of his beloued/ Sonne.


Pepys 1.358-359 A Louers complaint being forsaken of his Loue.


Pepys 1.360-361r The diseased Maiden Louer.

Pepys 1.362-363 The father hath beguil'd the sonne./ Or, a wonderfull Tragedy, which lately befell In Wiltshire, as many men knovv/ full well.


Pepys 1.366-367 The Shepheards Lamentation.

Pepys 1.372 The Northerne Turtle:/ Wayling his vnhappy fate,/ In being depriued of his sweet Mate.

Pepys 1.373 The Northerne Turtle:/ Wayling his vnhappy fate,/ In being depriued of his sweet Mate.

Pepys 1.378-379 Any thing for a quiet life; Or the Married mans/ bondage to a curst Wife.

Pepys 1.384-385 The wiuing age./ OR/ A great Complaint of the Maidens of London,/ Who now for lacke of good Husbands are vndone,/ For now many Widowes though neuer so old,/ Are caught vp by young men for lucre of gold.


Pepys 1.386-387 A Prouerbe old, yet nere forgot,/ Tis good to strike while the Irons hott./ Or,/ Counsell to all Young men that are poore,/ To Marry with Widowes now while there is store.


Pepys 1.390-391 A constant VVife, a kinde VVife,/ A louing VVife, and a fine VVife,/ VVhich giues content vnto mans life.


Pepys 1.394-395 Tis not otherwise:/ OR:/ The praise of a married life.


Pepys 1.396-397r Rocke the Babie Joane:/ OR,/ Iohn his Petition to his louing Wife Ioane,/ To suckle the Babe that was none of her owne.


Pepys 1.400-401 The Cooper of Norfolke:/ OR,/ A pretty Iest of a Brewer, and the Coopers wife: and how the Cooper served the/ Brewer in his kinde.


Pepys 1.404-405 [Rocke the cradle Iohn, or/] Children after the rate of 24 in a yeare,/ Thats 2 euery month as plaine doth appeare,/ Let no man at this strang story wonder.


Pepys 1.406-407 The Cuckowes Comendation:/ Or, the Cuckolds Credit: Being a merry Maying Song in Praise of the Cuckow.

Pepys 1.412-413 The cunning Age./ OR/ A re-married Woman repenting her Marriage,/ Rehearsing her Husbands dishonest carriage./ Being a pleasant Dialogue between a re-married Woman, a Widdow, and a young Wife.

Pepys 1.420-421 Saylors for my money./ A new Ditty composed in the praise of Saylors and Sea affaires, briefly shew-/ ing the nature of so worthy a calling, and effects of their industry.

Pepys 1.422-423 A pleasant new Song, betwixt/ The Saylor and his Loue.

Pepys 1.426-427 A pleasant new Ballad to sing both Euen and Morne,/ Of the bloody murther of Sir John Barley-corne.

Pepys 1.470-471 A Pleasant New Ballad to Sing Evening and Morn,/ Of the Bloody Murther of Sir Iohn Barley-Corn.


Pepys 1.472-473 The KING and the BISHOP:/ OR,/ Unlearned Men, hard matters out can find,/ When Learned Bishops, Princes eyes do blind.


Pepys 1.474-475 Old Christmas Returnd,/ Or, Hospitality REVIVED./ Being a Looking-glass for rich Misers, wherein they may see (if they be not blind)/ how much they are too blame for their penurious house-keeping, and likewise/ an incouragement to those noble-minded Gentry, who lay out a great part of/ their Estates in Hospitality, relieving such persons as have need thereof./ Who feasts the Poor a true reward shall find/ Or helps the old, the Feeble, lame and blind.


Pepys 1.476-477 <{?}>/ constance of Cleveland. Or,/ A very excellent Sonnet of the most fair Lady Constance of Cleveland, and her disloyal Knight.


Pepys 1.478-479 A most Excellent Song of the Love of Young Palmus and fair Sheldra.

Pepys 1.492-493 A Worthy Example of a Vertuous Wife, who Fed her/ Father with her own Milk, being Condemned to be starved to Death, and was afterwards/ pardoned by the Emperor.

Pepys 1.498-499 A Lamentable Ballad of Fair Rosamond, King Henry the Second's Concubine,/VVho was put to death by Queen Elinor, in VVoodstock Bower near Oxford.


Pepys 1.504-505 A Godly Warning for all Maidens, by the exam/ ple of Gods Judgement shewed on one Jermans Wife of Clifton, in the/ County of Nottingham, who lying in Child-bed, was born away,/ and never heard of after.

Pepys 1.506-507 The shepherd and the King, and of Gillian the [she]pherds Wife, with her churlish answer./ Being full of mirth and pastime.


Pepys 1.508-509 The Young-Mans A. B. C./ OR/ Two Dozen of Verses which a Young-Man sent/ to his Love, who proved unkind; wrote in the manner of an Alphabet.

Pepys 1.510-511 A Lamentable Ballad of the Ladies Fall.

Pepys 1.512-513 A sweet Sonnet, wherein the Lover exclaimeth against/ Fortune for the loss of his Ladies favour, almost past hope to get again, and in the end/ receives a comfortable answer, and attains his desire, as may here appear.


Pepys 1.514-515 A New Ballad, shewing how a Prince of England, loved the Kings/ Daughter of France, and how the Prince was disasterously slain, and how the aforesaid Princess was afterwards/ Married to A Forrester.


Pepys 1.518-519 The Norfolk Gentleman his last VVill and Testament./ Who Committed the keeping of his Children to his own Brother, who dealt most wickedly with them, and/ how God plagued him for it.


Pepys 1.524-525 The Wandring Jew,/ OR, The Shoo-maker of Jerusalem, who lived when our Saviour Christ was Crucified, an/ pointed by him to live until his coming again.


Pepys 1.526-527 A most Excellent Ballad of St. George for England, and the Kings Daughter of Egypt, whom he delivere from/ death, and how he slew a mighty Dragon.

Pepys 1.528-529 A Pleasant new Ballad of King Henry the second and the Miller of Mansfield,/ in Sherwood, and how he was lodged at the Millers house, and of their pleasant/ Communication.


Pepys 1.536-537 The Cooper of Norfolk./ OR, A pretty jest of a Brewer and the Coopers Wife, and how the Cooper served the Brewer in's kind.


Pepys 1.544-545 The most Rare and excellent History,/ Of the Dutchess of Suffolks Calamity,

Pepys 1.546-547 A Lamentable Ballad of the Tragical end of a Gallant Lord and a Vertuous/ Lady; with the untimely end of their two Children, wickedly performed by a Heathenish Black-a-moor their Servant: the/ like never heard of before.

Pepys 1.548-549 An excellent Ballad entituled the wandring Prince of Troy,

Pepys 2.10 Englands Present State. / Poor England now is sore opprest, / The more it is the pitty, / But God preserve our Soveraign King, / And eke preserve the City.


Pepys 2.14 The English-mans Advice, / That all may leave to live in Sin, / and truly Worship God, / Least he in Anger do begin, / to scourge them with his Rod.

Pepys 2.18 A Friends advice, / In an excellent Ditty, Concerning the variable Changes in this life.

Pepys 2.24-25 Ann Askew, intituled, I am a VVoman Poor and Blind.

Pepys 2.28 An Excellent Ballad of the Birth and Passion of our / Saviour Christ.

Pepys 2.33v A Letter for a Christian Family. / Directed to all true Christians to Read. / Which being sealed up in heart and mind, / Nothing but truth in it you'l find. / Both old and young, both Rich and Poor, / Bear it in mind, keep it in store: / And think upon the time to come, / For time doth pass, the Glass doth run, / Therefore whilst thou hast time and space, / Call to the Lord above for Grace, / Then he will surely thee defend, / And thou shalt make a happy end.


Pepys 2.34 A Looking-Glass for a Christian Family, / OR, A Warning for all people to fear God. / Good people, in this Glass you may behold the Joys and Comfort the Righteous are in, / the wicked being accursed for evermore: Likewise the great cause the Lord sends / such sore Judgments among us for our Sins and Wickedness, and worser he will send / if we repent not in time.


Pepys 2.38 The Lamenting Ladies last Farewel to the / WORLD. / Who being in a strange Exile, bewails her own misery, complains / upon fortune and destiny, describeth the manner of her breeding, / deplores the loss of her parents, wishing peace and happines to / England, which was her native Country, and withal resolving for / death, chearfully commended her Soul to Heaven, and her bo-/dy to the earth, and quietly departed this Life, Anno 1650.

Pepys 2.47 A Looking-Glass for all true Christians. / Very useful and necessary for all people of what degree soever, to look upon in these trouble-/some times of sorrow.

Pepys 2.48 A Lesson for all true Christians. / Which being well observed by old and young, / And practiced with hand, and heart, and tongue: / Great comfort in it at the last you'l find, / Then mark it well, and bear it in your mind.


Pepys 2.51 The Punish'd Atheist: / Or, The Miserable End of a North Country Gentleman, who, to / obtain his lewd Desires on a Lady, his own Sister, deny'd that there was ei-/ther Heaven or Hell, God or Devil; when at the same time of his utter-/ing those Blaspemous Expression, he was made a sad Example of God's Ju-/stice.


Pepys 2.57 THE / Bountiful Knight of Sommersetshire, / Who dayly relieved the Poor in those parts, and after his Death, will'd / His Son to do the like, and tho' he solemnly protested to his Father on his Death-bed that he would, / which he neglected the same, bringing himself to a miserable end,

Pepys 2.59 The Downfal of Pride: / BEING / An Account of a Merchants Wife, who having two Daughters, / loved one, and hated the other: Together with a Relation of her Dar-/ling, and her own Misfortune, as likewise the Prosperity of her despised / Daughter, by whom they were all at length Succoured in their Distress.

Pepys 2.60 The Country Travellers Advice. / Being an Admonition to his Fellow=Travellers, perswading them to be / careful to avoid the sin of Drunkenness, which is the fore-runner of all / other evils, and learn to lead sober lives, that they may see Happy / Days, Peace and Plenty.

Pepys 2.66-67 Prides Fall; Or, A warning for all English Women. / By the Example of a strange Monster, born late in Germany, by a Merchants proud Wife at / Geneva.

Pepys 2.69 The Bedforshire Prophesie: / OR, / The strange and wonderfull Vision of Mr. Godson of the / Town of Nonwich, who sickn'd on the 18th. of April, 1690. and lan-/guish'd to the 26th. and then dyed; yet after Twelve hours his Spirit / return'd to him again, and he gave this following Relation. / The Truth of this Attested by William Telly, Thomas Roberts, UUilliam Hornby.

Pepys 2.73 THE CAREFULL / Wife's Good Counsel: / OR, THE / Husband's firm Resolution to Reform his Life, and to lay up something a-/gainst a Rainy Day.

Pepys 2.74 The Distressed Gentlewoman; / Or, Satan's Implacable Malice. / Being a True Relation of a young Gentlewoman near Lincolns-Inn-Fields, who is possess'd with an / Evil Spirit, which Speaks within her most Blasphemous Words, to the grief of her Friends and / Relations, and all good Christian People.

Pepys 2.75 The Bedford-shire VVidow; / OR, / The Poor in Distress Reliev'd, / Being a full and true Relation, of a poor Widow, whose Hus-/band was dead, and she turn'd out of doors by her Creditors, and forced with / her three Children to lye in the street, and Beg for Bread; and how that Queen Mary, walking in her / Garden, and hearing her Beg, came to her, and caused her children to be cloathed and put to Nurse, / and gave the poor widow a weekly pension, to maintain her as long as she liv'd.


Pepys 2.78 The Maidstone Miracle: / OR, THE / Strange Kentish Wonder. / Being an Account of a Charitable Farmer who, by Divine Providence, had a vast / Crop of Corn which grew in a Field which was neither Plow'd nor Sow'd for several / Years, it being look'd upon to be a Reward of his Christian Charity, &c.

Pepys 2.79 The Essex Miracle; / OR, THE / VVonder of VVonders. / Giving a true Account of a Poor Man in Distress, whose Orchard this Year did bear a vast encrease, though / there be a general scarcity through the land beside, which stock of Fruit he sold for Three Score and / Ten Pounds, which encrease is lookt upon as the wonderful hand of Providence at the Poor Mans time of / Distress.


Pepys 2.83 The Father's wholesome Admonition: / OR, A / A Lumping Pennyworth of Good Counsel for Bad Husbands.

Pepys 2.86 The poor Mans Councellor, / OR / The Marryed Mans Guide. / God have blest thee with a careful wife, / [?]ke my directions how to lead thy life, / [?]o riches thou do't want yet thou shalt fiud, / Far greater wealth in a contented mind; / Thy honest labour shall thy charge maintain, / Being truly got, not by unlawful gain.

Pepys 2.88 Poor Man's Complaint: / OR, / The Sorrowful Lamentation of Poor Plain-Dealing, / at this Time of Distress and Trouble

Pepys 2.91 The Farmers Reformation: / OR, a Pattern for all Bad Husbands to Amend their Lives. / When all is spent, there's no content, / but Sorrow will attend: / Before too late, renew thy State, / and learn thy Life to mend.

Pepys 2.92 The Extravagant YOUTH, / OR, / An Emblem of PRODIGALITY. / Tho' he was stout, he can't get out, / in Trouble he'l remain / Young-men be wise, your freedom prize, / Bad company refrain.

Pepys 2.95 The Traveler's Repentance: / OR, THE / Death-bed Tears, last Dying-sayings, & serious Exhortations / OF / ROBERT GODFREY, / Late of Reading in Bark-shire, who departed this Life in Lon-/ don, on the 27th of August, and was decently interr'd in the Parish of / St. Mary Alderman bury, on the 31st of the said Month, in the said City.

Pepys 2.101 Robin Hood newly reviv'd:

Pepys 2.102 Robin Hood and the Butcher.

Pepys 2.109 Robin Hood & the Bishop; / SHEWING / How Robin Hood went to an Old Womans House, and changed Cloaths with her, to escape from the / Bishop; and how he robbed him of all his Gold, and made him Sing Mass.

Pepys 2.111 Robin Hood and the Tanner. / Or, Robin Hood met with his match: A merry and pleasant Song, relating the gallant / and fierce Combate, fought between Arthur Bland a Tanner of Nottingham, and Robin / Hood, the greatest Archer in England.

Pepys 2.112 Robin Hood's Delight: / OR, A merry Combate fought against Robin Hood, little John and Will. Scarlet, and three / stout Keepers in Sherwood Forrest.

Pepys 2.113 Robin Hood & the Beggar. / Shewing how Robin Hood and the Beggar fought, and how he changed cloaths with the / Beggar, and how he went a begging to Nottingham, and how he saved three Brethren / from being Hanged, for stealing of the King's Deer.

Pepys 2.119r Little John and the Four Beggers; Or, / A New merry Song of Robin Hood, and little John, shewing how little John went a Begging, and / how he fought with four Beggers, and what a prize he got of the four Beggers.

Pepys 2.134 Courage Crowned with Conquest; / OR, / A brief Relation, how that Valiant Knight, and Heroick Champion Sir Eglamore, bravely / fought with, and manfully slew, a terrible, huge great Monstrous Dragon.

Pepys 2.136 STRANGE and DREADFUL / News from Holland; / OR, / The Sad and Lamentable Account of a Fearful STORM, / that continued for the space of two Days, by which the Seas were inraged to / that degree, that overflowing the Dykes, they broke the Banks, and layed all / the Country of 20 miles, under Water, to the Ruine of many hundred Familys; / Drowning divers Islands in the River Elbe; together with the Villages of Batten-/Rug and Groverot: As likewise, many Houses, Stacks of Corn, Trees, People, / and a great number of Cattle; overthrowing the Chimneys and the tops of the / Houses, the like never heard of before.

Pepys 2.137 A Ballad of the Strange and / Wonderful Storm of Hail, / Which fell in LONDON on the 18th. of May 1680, which hurt several men, killed / many Birds, and spoiled many Trees; with other strange Accidents, the like never / before known in ENGLAND.

Pepys 2.146 The lamentation of a bad Market, / OR, / The Drownding of three Children on the Thames. / With this fantastick Tragy Comedy, / Tis like that one or other pleas'd will be; / Because the Method carries Mirth there n, / Or else the Subject were not worth a pin: / Howe're you'l say it is no laughing matter, / To see poor Children Drowned in the Water.

Pepys 2.149 The Lady Isabella's Tragedy; / OR, The Step=Mothers Cruelty. / Being a Relation of a most Lamentable and Cruel Murder, committed / on the body of the Lady Isabella, the only Daughter of a Noble Duke / occasioned by the means of a Step-Mother and the Master-Cook, who / were both adjudged to suffer a Cruel death, for committing the said / Horrid Act.

Pepys 2.152 Sad and Dreadful News from / Horsly-Down, in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondset; / OR, / A Warning to Brokers, Tally-men, and such like unconscionable Carter-pillars; by the sad Example of Dorothy / Winter-bottom, Alias Dirty-Doll, late of Horsly-Down, who according to her own Report, as 'tis Credibly / attested, by contending with the Devil, received such mortal Bruises, as occasioned her death, she dying on / the 27th. of August, and war buried at St. Olives Southwark, on the 28th. of the same month, 1684. / Reader, behold what Mortals are, when sin / Opens the Gate and lets the Tempter in, / As by this Story may too plain be seen.

Pepys 2.153 CRIMINALS CRUELTY. / Giving a Just and true Account of one Iohn Wise, who together with Richard Iones, and Charles Tooley yet untaken, / did one Sunday night being the twentieth of April, commit that Barbarous and Unnatural Murther on Elizabeth / Fairbank, Widdow, who lived in a Seller, at Picadilly, that Robbed and Rifled her, being of Money and Plate, / and Rings, for which fact Iohn Wise at present was found guilty, and accordingly received the due Sentance of / Death, the which was Executed on Friday, the 17tnth, of this instant October, 1684. at PICKADILLY.

Pepys 2.161 THE / Mournful Murtherer: / OR, / The last Dying Lamentation of Thomas Randall, who was arraign-/ed and found guilty of the Murther of Roger Levins, at Stone-bridge, near Kings-/land, for which he received the due Sentence of Death, and was accordingly / Executed and Hang'd in Chains at the said Bridge, on the 29th of this Instant / January.

Pepys 2.162-163 A Lamentable Ditty made on the Death of Robert Deverux Earl of Essex, who was Beheaded ithe Tower / of London, on Ash-Wednesday, 1603.

Pepys 2.164 THE / Town=bully's Bravery: / OR, THE / HIGH-WAY HECTOR's / Ample Confession of his Lew'd LIFE; / Being a fore-runner of an ignominious DEATH.

Pepys 2.165 Lord RUSSELS Farewel, / VVho was Beheaded for High=Treason, in / Lincolns=Inn=Fields, / JULY 21st. 1683.

Pepys 2.166-167 A wonderful Example of Gods Justice shewed upon one Jasper / Conningham, a Gentleman born in Scotland, who was of opinion that there was neither God nor Devil.

Pepys 2.169 THE / Bloody-minded Husband; / OR, / The Cruelty of John Chambers, who lately lived at Tanworth, in / Warwick-shire, and conspir'd the Death of Wife, hiring a Servant to Shoot her with a Musket, / which he accordingly did, for which they were both Arraign'd, found Guilty, and Executed / for the same.

Pepys 2.170-171 The Lamentation of Mr. Pages Wife of Plimouth, / Who being forced to Wed against her will, did consent to his Murder, for the love of George Strangwidge. / for which Fact they suffered Death at Barnstable in Devonshire.

Pepys 2.172r On the Barbarous, Execrable, and Bloody / Murder of the Earl of Essex.

Pepys 2.172v The Chimney-man's Lamentation, OR, Gold ill got, never prospers.

Pepys 2.173 THE / Unfortunate WELCH-MAN; / OR, / The Untimely Death of Scotch JOCKEY / If her will Fight, her cause to right, / as daring to presume / To Kill and Slay, then well her may / take this to be her Doom.

Pepys 2.175 MANS Amazement: / It being a true Relation of one Thomas Cox, a Hackney-Coach-man, to whom the Devil appeared on fri-/day night, it being the 31st. of October, first in the likeness of a Gentleman, seeming to have a role of Paper or / Parchment in his hand, afterwards in the likeness of a great Bear with glaring eyes, which so affrighted him, / that it deprived him of all his Sences.

Pepys 2.179 THE / Murtherers Lamentation: / BEING / An Account of John Jewster and William / Butler, who where arraign'd and found guil-/ty of the Robbery and Murther of Mrs. Jane Le-grand; / for which they received due Sentence of Death, and was / accordingly Executed on the 19th day of this Instant / July, in Spittle-fields.

Pepys 2.184-185 The Lamentable and Tragical History of Titus Andronicus; with the / Fall of his 25 Sons, in the Wars of Goths, with the manner of the Ravishment of his Daughter Lavinia / by the Empresses two Sons, through the means of a Bloody Moor, taken by the Sword of Titus, in the / War; with his Revenge upon their Cruel and Inhumane Act.

Pepys 2.186 Capt. WHITNEY's Confession: / OR, HIS / Penitent Lamentation, / Under a Sence of a Guilty Conscience, on the Day of / his Execution at the Porter's Block, near Smithfield-Bars, which / was on the First of February, 1693.

Pepys 2.189 The Kentish VVonder. / OR, / The Unmerciful Farmers Misfortune. / Containing an Account of an Old Miser, living in the Town of Maulden in the / County of Kent, that kept his Corn so long, in hopes it would be still Dearer, that at length the very Hogs would / not eat it. Likewise in his Field this Summer, a sheaf of Corn was heard to cry like a young Child while it was / bound, but when it was open, and spread, it ceased; but when bound up again it did the like, to the astonishment of / all Spectators.

Pepys 2.190 THE / VVhipster of VVoodstreet, / OR, / A True Account of the Barbarous and Horrid Murther committed on the Body / of Mary Cox, late Servant in Woodstreet LONDON.

Pepys 2.192 The Midwife of Poplar's / Sorrowful Confession and Lamentation in Newgate / Who was Condemned to Dye for that Horrid and Unheard of Murder, which she / committed on the Bodys of several young infants, whom she Starved to Death, / and was accordingly Executed for the same in Holbourn, upon the 23d. of this / instant October, 1693.

Pepys 2.206 The Last News from Frauce, / Being a true Relation of the escape of the King of Scots from Worcester to London, and from / London to France, who was conveyed away by a young Gentleman in womens apparel: The / King of Scots attending on this supposed Gentlewomon in manner of a Servingman.

Pepys 2.209 Rebellion given over House-keeping: / OR, / A General Sale of Rebellious Houshould stuff. / Being a Pleasant New Song.

Pepys 2.213 Good Subjects Delight: / Or, True Love in its proper Colours; / A most pleasant and delectable new Play-Song, greatly in request, / both in Court and City: / Good Subjects are the Jewels of the Crown, / Procure their Soveraigns Glory and Renown, / But bad are those who see to pull him down; / Union an Ornament that Kingdom Graces, / Who seeks Devision, all that's good defaces, / And for his pains may he ware Hempen Tresses

Pepys 2.217r A health to the Royal Family / Or, the TORIES Delight.

Pepys 2.219 Englands Darling, OR / Great Brittains Joy and hope on that Noble PRINCE / JAMES Duke of MONMOUTH. / Brave Monmouth, Englands Glory, / Hated of none but Papist and Tory, / Mayst thou in thy Noble Fathers love remain, / who happily over this Land doth Reign.

Pepys 2.223 The True LOYALIST; / OR, / The Obedient SUBJECT, / A Loyal SONG.

Pepys 2.226 ENGLAND'S MERCIES/ In the Midst of Miserys./ OR,/ The Poor=Man's Comfort in a Time of Trouble.

Pepys 2.227 Sorrowful SUBJECT,/ Or, Great-Brittains Calamity./ Shewing, The great Grief, Care, and Sorrow, that possessed the Loyal Subjects of/ England, for the loss of the most Illustrious PRINCE/ CHARLES the Second:/ Who departed this Life on Feb. the 6th. 1684. to the great Astonishment/ and Lamentation of the whole Nation.

Pepys 2.230 Brittains TRIUMPH/ In the Coronation of their most Sacred Majesties, who were Crowned with great Splendor in Westminster-Abbey,on the 23d/ of April, 1685. And in the First Year of His Majesties Happy Reign, &c./ Great Isle forbear to mourn for Him that’s gone/ To Sacred Mansions, since so bright a Sun/ Arises in our happy Horizon;/ To Cheer thes miling Nation with his Rays,/ And in His Reign afford us happy Days.

Pepys 2.23 The VVicked-mans VVarning-peice, or, / A looking-Glass for a lewd liver. / Being a Caveat for all sinful and secure people, to avoid Gods Wrath and Vengeance by / seeking to him for Repentance before it be too late.

Pepys 2.234v The London Lasses Folly,/ OR,/ The MAIDEN Beguil'd./ This Maiden wild she was Beguil'd,/ to loose her Maiden-Head,/ And when that he had got his will,/ away from her he fled.

Pepys 2.235 Good Nevvs for the Nation, Or,/ The Citys joy and the Countries Happiness./ Plainly shewing the great satisfaction and content, that all Loyal Subjects do/ injoy, by the new Election of members of Parliament, whom God preserve, and/ direct, that they may Act for the good of their King, and Country, and the benifit/ and Happiness of all true English Protestants.

Pepys 2.237 King JAMESES/ Royal VICTORY./ Giving an Account of the Great Conquest His Gracious Majesty hath happily gained over the/ Rebels; Also the taking and Execution of the late Duke of Monmouth, who was Beheaded on/ Tower-Hill, on Wednesday the 15th. of the Instant July, 1685.

Pepys 2.243 Rebellion Rewarded with Justice./ OR,/ The Last farewell of the late Duke of Monmouth which was Beheaded on Tower-Hill on/ the 15th of this Instant July 1685./ It is not well for to Rebell,/ Against a Gracious Prince,/ Let all beware and shun the Snare,/ That would be Men of Sence.

Pepys 2.246 The VVestern-TRIUMPH:/OR, The ROYAL PROGRESS/ of Our Gracious King James the II. into the West of England./ Our Gracious King, where e're he came,/ was entertained with joy:/ His presence did much comfort bring,/ all crys Vive Le Roy.

Pepys 2.247 The Manifestation of Joy, Or, The Loyal Subjects grateful acknowledgment./ Occasionally Written upon the Publication of His Majesties most Gracious Declaration,/ Allowing LIBERTY of/ CONSCIENCE.

Pepys 2.251 THE/ Princely Triumph:/ Or, Englands Joy in the BIRTH of the/ Young Prince of WALES:/ Born on the 10th. of June, 1688. to the great Content and Satisfaction of all/ LOYAL SUBJECTS.

Pepys 2.254 ENGLANDS Extasie:/ OR,/ The Nations Joy for the Happy Coronation of/ King William, and His Royal Consort Queen Mary

Pepys 2.257 A Full Description of these Times, Or The/ Prince of ORANGE's March/ f[r]om EXETER to LONDON; And Father PETERS and the rest of the Jesuites put to flight./ The Pope and Jesuites are undone,/ They conld not England overcome/ To bring it into Popery,/ Though very boldly they did try;/ Until a Prince came o're the Main,/ And blasted all that they had done; And now there is no more to be fed,/ They run all away and hide their heads

Pepys 2.259 THE/ Rare Vertue of an Orange;/ Or, Popery purged and expelled out of the Nation.

Pepys 2.260 THE/ FAMOUS ORANGE:/ Or, an Excellent Antidote against Romish Poison.

Pepys 2.266 The Loyal Subjects Free Choice:/ OR, Their General Satisfaction in the Calling of a New/ PARLIAMENT,/ By King William's Gracious Appointment, Whom God ever bless.

Pepys 2.267 ENGLANDS Happiness/ In the Crowning of/ WILLIAM and MARY,/ King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland.

Pepys 2.270 The Subjects Satisfaction, / Being a new SONG of the Proclaiming King William and Queen Mary, on the/ 13th. of this Instant February; to the great Joy and Comfort of the whole Kingdom.

Pepys 2.276 The Triumph of Ireland: / OR, / King William's safe Arrival at Carrickfergus, on June the 14th. 1690. / Where he was joyfully received by Valiant Duke Schombergh, with the rest of the Protestant Com- / manders and Soldiers.

Pepys 2.277 The Jesuits Exaltation, / OR, A Preparation for a turn at Tyburn.

Pepys 2.278 The Chancellors Resolution: / OR, / His Last Sayings a little before his Death.

Pepys 2.286r The Jesuits Lamentation; / OR, / The Downfall of the Whore of BABYL[{?ON}]

Pepys 2.294 SPORT upon SPORT; Or, The / JACOBITE toss'd in a Blanket: / TOGETHER / With his Ingenious Confession, and Publick Recantation.

Pepys 2.298 The Triumph of IRELAND: / OR, / The Surrender of Limbrick / To Their MAJESTIES FORCES under the Command of the Duke / Or Wirtemburg, and Lieutenant General Scravenmore, on Sunday the 27th. of September 1693. to the unspeakable joy / of the Protestant Army.

Pepys 2.299 The Protestant Soldiers Resolution to Fight for / KING WILLIAM, / (Who is now gone for Ireland) against the Irish Rebels, and / French-Papists, both by Sea and Land, being incouragement for all / True Hearted Protestants to follow Them.

Pepys 2.301 Great and Happy News/ FOR/ ENGLAND,/ OR,/ The Defeat of the Irish Army by King WILLIAM, in a Mortal Battle near Dublin, with/ the Account of the Fatal Loss, &c.

Pepys 2.304 Poor TEAGUE in Distress:/ OR,/ The French and Irish Army Routed./ Together with the Flight of the Duke of Berwick, Fitz-James, Tyrconnel, and the rest of the Head Leaders, to FRANCE.

Pepys 2.305 The Souldiers Prayers for/ King VVILLIAMS/ Good Success in Ireland Over His Enemies.

Pepys 2.307 THE/ Irish Rebels Routed:/ OR,/ A brief Relation of the Victorious Conquest by the/ Protestants over the French & Irish at CAVAN:/ To the great Encouragement of the Protestant Party, as it was sent in a Let-/ ter from a Soldier in Ireland to his Love in London.

Pepys 2.308 Englands TRIUMPH,/ OR/ Valiant King William's MARCH on his Expedition,/ TO/ IRELAND.

Pepys 2.309 THE/ Royal Favours of K. WILLIAM;/ Being the Substance of his Speech to his Valiant Soldiers in FLANDERS./ As likewise His Princely Present to them, with which they Drank His Royal Health, while/ Drums was Beating, and Trumpets Sounding through the whole Army.

Pepys 2.310 A Brief/ Touch of the Irish Wars:/ From the Siege of London-Derry to the Surrender of Drogheda, Dublin, Waterford, and ma-/ ny other strong Forts and Castles.

Pepys 2.312 The Royal Recreation;/ OR,/ King WILLIAM's Merriment./ Shewing, The manner of his Entertainment at a Country Farmer's House, in his Return/ from the Irish Wars.

Pepys 2.313r The Royal Frolick:/ OR,/ King WILLIAM and his Nobles Entertainment at the Farmers/ House, in his Return from the Irish Wars.

Pepys 2.316 POPERY'S Downfal, and/ The Protestants Uprising/ By the CROWNING of/ King WILLIAM and Queen MARY.

Pepys 2.317 K. William's March to Ireland:/ OR,/ The earnest Prayers and hearty Resolutions of the Noble General, Collonels, Captains,/ and all other Officers and Soldiers, that God would bless the Arms of King William, and/ conquer his Foes, and return in Triumph to his Royal Throne./ His Majesty intending in this His Royal Expedition to lye at these places following:/ Wednesday at Northampton, Thursday at Litchfield, Friday at Whitchurch, Saturday/ at Collonel VVhitleys between Chester and High-lake.

Pepys 2.318 The Loyal Subjects Prayers for/ King VVILLIAMS/ Good Success Over His Enemies in Flanders.

Pepys 2.320 The Second Uictorious Conquest:/ OR,/ The City of CORK Storm'd,/ And forc'd to Surrender to the Earl of Marlborough, and the rest of the Protestant Forces.

Pepys 2.32 The Age and Life of MAN. / Here you mao see the frailty that in men, Till they have run the years threescore and ten.

Pepys 2.326 An ANSWER to/ The Royal Frollick;/ Containing the Intreagues and Passages between the Farmer/ and his Wife at their return home, where they found His Gracious Majesty/ King VVILLIAM with His Nobles.

Pepys 2.327 The Royal Farewel:/ Or, a Conference between Their present Majesties/ King William & Queen Mary/ On Their Parting, when the KING took his Leave, in order for the Irish Expedition.

Pepys 2.328 The Protestants JOY/ For the King's safe Arrival from the bloudy Scene of Ireland, to his Gra-/cious Queen, and his Royal Throne; who landed in England, at Kings Weston, near Bri-/stol, September the 6th, 1690. to the unspeakable satisfaction of his Loyal Subjects.

Pepys 2.330 THE/ ROYAL DIALOGUE/ OR,/ The Courtly Salutation/ BETWEEN/ King William and Queen Mary:/ At their Parting for his Famous Atchievements in the present Wars of/ Flanders.

Pepys 2.331 King WILLIAM'S/ VVelcome from Flande[r]s;/ OR,/ The True Protestants Loyal Health/ For his Happy and Safe Return.

Pepys 2.339 THE/ Bloody Fight of Flanders;/ WITH/ An Account of the fierce Battle between the English and/ the French Forces

Pepys 2.340 The Successful Commander:/ OR,/ The brave Exploit perform'd by the Right Honourable the Earl of Athlone, against the French at Givet,/ where the French had laid up invincible Stores for the ensuing Campaign, of which our renowned Ea[r]l was plea-/sed to make a Burn-sire for joy of the discov[e]ry of the horrid Conspiracy in England.

Pepys 2.342 THE LATE/ Bloody Fight in Flanders:/ With an Account of the Numbers slain on both sides; ours scarce being ten/ Thousand, and the French twenty five Thousand. As also the taking seve-/ral Prisoners of note, amongst which was the Duke de Maine, the French/ King's Son, the Duke of Barwich, and likewise the Son of Luxemburgh the/ French General. Together with a second Encounter by fresh Forces, who/ falling on the French routed them, seizing on their Baggage and Sixty Pieces/ of Cannon; to the great Satisfaction of our Royal Army.

Pepys 2.350 THE/ Female SOULDIER:/ OR,/ The Uirgin Uolunteer.

Pepys 2.351 Englands VVelcome to King William:/ OR, THE/ Loyal Subjects hearty Joy/ For the Return of King VVILLIAM, after his many Perills/ and Dangers.

Pepys 2.368 The Bloody PLOT:/ OR,/ A horrid Conspiracy against the Life of His Sacred Majesty, hap-/pily discover'd, and many of the Conspiraters taken, in order to be brought/ to Justice.

Pepys 2.373 The Court and Kingdom in Tears:/ OR, THE/ Sorrowful Subject's Lamentation for the DEATH/ OF/ Her Royal Majesty Queen Mary,/ Who departed this Life the 28th of this instant December, 1694; to the Un-/speakable Grief of his Majesty, and all his Loyal and Loving Subjects.

Pepys 3.4 The Young-Mans Vindication/ AGAINST/ The Virgins Complaint./ She rail'd against Young-men in a passion great,/ But he more mildly seems with her to treat,/ Young men are not so bad as she would make them,/ Some Maids are full as bad, how e're you take them,

Pepys 3.9 The True Lovers Tragedy:/ Being an Incomparable Ballad of a Gentleman and his LADY/ that both Killed themselves for Love, under the disguised Names of/ Philander and Phillis./ Phillis; Philanders scattered Garments find/ And thinks him slain, for which with Fate she joyns,/ And with her fatal Poniard striketh deep,/ As life no longer can its station keep,/ The Crimson Streams so fast flowd from her veins/ Yet Dying, of her Loves dear loss Complains:/ No sooner Death had closed up her Starry eyes/ But her Return'd Philander her espyes;/ And finding that for him she lost her Breath,/ He kills himself, and Crowns his Love with death.

Pepys 3.10 The Pensive Maid: / OR, / The Virgins Lamentation for the loss of her Lover. / For seven years space she patiently did bear, / The absence of her Love, as you shall hear, / At length sad tydings came that he was slain, / And that they never more should meet again.

Pepys 3.11 The Huntington-shire PLOVV-MAN: / OR, / The Plowmans Complaint / For the Loss of his Hearts Delight. / True Love alone, does cause my moan, / such Sorrows I possess, / I being left of joys bereft, / To languish in Distress.


Pepys 3.13 The Hampshire Miller, short and thick, / With an Overton Widow he's done the trick, / He shook her Plum-tree, / they chance to catch a fall, / Upslipt her Cloaths, Smock and all; / A woman peep'd through a hole, / she is short and thick, / And see the Miller and the Widow do the trick.


Pepys 3.16 The Young-Mans Vindication/ Against the Virgins Complaint./ She rail'd against Young-men in a passion great,/ But he more mildly seems with her to treat,/ Young men are not so false as she would make them,/ Some Maids are full as bad, how e're you take them.

Pepys 3.22v A New Western BALLAD, / Of a Butcher that Cuckolded the Farmer. / Good Husbands all be loving to your wives, / For that's the way to live contented lives; / But if you'r negligent, you may be sure / They'l ne'r want that they can elsewhere procure

Pepys 3.26 True Love Indeed. / Being the Courtship of William ------ of Portsmouth, to his / Sweet-Heart Betty.

Pepys 3.43 THE / Lusty Friar of Dublin: / With an Account how he was catch'd a Bed with another Man's Wife, and for / that Cause was adjudg'd to part with his Codlings to his great Grief.

Pepys 3.44 THE / Lusty Fryer of Flanders; / How in a Nunnery at the City of Gaunt this Fryer got Thirty Nuns with Child in three Weeks / time, and afterwards made his escape.

Pepys 3.64 The true Lovers Good-morrow./ A brace of Valentines I here present,/ Who now together live in hearts content:/ These luckily did meet upon the way,/ In February the fourteenth day.

Pepys 3.67 The Jolly Cheese-Monger;/ Or, The Presbyterian Follies plainly Discovered; together, with his VVifes/ Consulting the Cunning Man of her Husbands Non-performance of Family Duty.

Pepys 3.76 Kates Hue-and-Cry after/ Her MAIDEN-HEAD:/ With a Reward of Five Shilling to any young-man that can help her to it/ again.

Pepys 3.81 The young Women and Maidens/ LAMENTATION:/ OR,/ Their bitter Sighs and Sorrow to hear the Old Women are prest to go with the Army,/ while they themselves are slighted and dejected which are able to perform/ far better Service.


Pepys 3.84 THE/ Bonny SCOT:/ OR,/ The Yielding LASS.

Pepys 3.87 The Un-equal Match:/ OR, THE/ Old feeble Taylor's Insufficiency/ Containing, The/ Young Beautiful Brides Lamentation.

Pepys 3.93 The Power and Pleasure of Love./ Is here describ'd an Antidote of joy,/ Against all grief, which doth the heart annoy;/ For the greatest Monarch, Clown, and Fool,/ Loves power doth conquer, and keeps all in rule:/ And those who Love, and kind and constant be,/ Live in a continued Extasie;/ But those who do in sorrows constant dwell,/ Were ne'r in Love, and can't it's pleasure tell.

Pepys 3.97 Forsaken Lovers Resolution./ Poor Silvia's much pretended friend,/ Against her Honour laid a Plot;/ But when she would not give consent,/ His Passion then was soon forgot.

Pepys 3.99 The Dying Lovers Reprieve:/ OR,/ The Reward of True Love./ With sighs and tears her love he doth desire,/ Since Cupid hath his senses set on fire;/ His torment and his pain to her he shews,/ With all his protestations and his vows:/ At last she yields to grant him some relief,/ And make him joyful after all his grief.

Pepys 3.100 Doctor Experience's excellent Advice to the/ VIRGINS:/ Or, An Infallible way to get good Husbands./ Maidens, peruse these lines, and you will find/ A speedy way to make the men grow kind;/ You that good Husbands want, 'tis in your/ power/ To hook them to you almost in an hour/ Take these directions & you cannot miss/ Safe to arrive at Loves intirest bliss.

Pepys 3.104 Loves fierce desire, and hopes of Recovery./ Or, A true and brief Description of two Resolved Lovers; whose Ex-/ cellent wits, sutable minds, and faithful hearts one to another, shall/ heedfully be spoken of in this following new made paper of Verses.

Pepys 3.119 A Remedy the GREEN SICKNESS./ A pretty Damsel full of love,/ Lay panting all alone,/ Which did a Youngsters pitty move,/ To hear her sigh and groan.

Pepys 3.123 Love and Loyalty./ She fearing that her Lover was Disloyal/ This means did use to have a further tryal,/ And after having her sad Fate lamented/ Attempted death, which he in time prevented,/ And wiping off her Tears, with many kisses,/ He cheard her Heart, & so increast their blisses.

Pepys 3.124 The diseased maiden Lover:

Pepys 3.139 The Mourning Conquest. Or,/ The Womans sad Complaint, and doleful Cry,/ To see her Love in Fainting-fits to lye.

Pepys 3.143 THE/ Witty Chamber-Maid;/ OR,/ Dick the Weaver strangely Cheated:/ A Weaver seemingly was tost,/ Vext, tormented, strangely crost;/ Because the maid was Coy and shye,/ Till she at length her Wits did try;/ He could no answer of her take,/ Nor his importunate Suit forsake:/ He quickly found the Effects thereof,/ With many a flounting jeer and scoff.

Pepys 3.154 TOBIAS ADVICE:/ Or, A Remedy for a ranting Young-Man./ VVhile you are single you take but little care,/ Therefore I say better you married were,/ Perhaps there's some at this will make a Jest,/ but I say still married Life is best./ Therefore young-men take this Advice of me/ Better take one than run to two or three.

Pepys 3.162 The KIND LADY,/ Or, The Loves of Stella and Adonis./ A new Court song much in request.

Pepys 3.163 The Constant Couple, OR,/ The Glory of True Love./ The Youngman prov'd in the Tryal just/ The Maid wae fearful of him for to trust,/ He told her plainly she should be his VVife/ And he with her could live a happy life./ She told him she was loath to yield/ But he in time at last did win the field/ They made no more ado ner further strife./ But went tot'h Church and joyned Man and VVife.

Pepys 3.164 The Loving Mistress,/ AND/ The WANTON CLERK./ The Mistress and the Maid would try,/ If Will between them both could lie/ And not with them the Wanton play,/ Of this they did a wager lay,/ He to be wanton did begin,/ So they the VVager thought to win.

Pepys 3.165 The Wandring Maiden,/ Or, True Love at length United./ She searcht the Hills and Mountains round,/ in grief and discontent,/ At length her dearest love she found,/ for whom she did lament:/ Then all her tears, and sighs, and fears/ was turned into bliss,/ And in his arms, a thousand charms,/ she sealed with a kiss.

Pepys 3.166 The Politick Maids Device;/ OR,/ The Maids distrust in CUPID's play./ Here Counsel is to all the rest/ Of Maidens fair to chuse the best,/ And let the worst of Youg-men stay a while,/ They are apt young maidens to beguile,/ But if Maidens will be rul'd by she,/ She'l fit them in their own degree:/ And make them spend their breath and strength,/ He should be an honest man that gain'd a wench.

Pepys 3.167 The Young-Man's Answer/ To the Politick-Maids Device./ If all young-men were as he would be,/ Maidens should mould above the knee:/ And let them sweat in their own S in,/ They are more false than men have been:/ And yet you see what here's in hand,/ How they do speak against Young-Men.


Pepys 3.168 The Wealthy Grasier's Joys/ COMPLEATED./ Or, The Shepherd's beautiful Daughter obtained./ His Love was pure, and did endure,/ And will for evermore;/ Her Beauty bright is his delight,/ And her he doth adore.

Pepys 3.171 The Merry Plow-Man,/ AND/ Loving Milk=Maid/ See how the loving Country-Men/ And Maidens do agree;/ While they express their happiness,/ And both contented be.

Pepys 3.172 An ANSWR to the/ Wealthy GRASIER;/ OR,/ An Account of the pleasant Passages on the WEDDING-DAY./ Tho she was mean, yet like a Queen,/ she did appear most Gay;/ Her Uncles Gold, she di behold,/ upon her Wedding-day.

Pepys 3.175 The Hasty VIRGIN:/ OR,/ The Daughters desire for a Husband./ Together with the Mothers perswading her to be satisfied for a season; but when finding that/ her Daughter could not forbear, she gave her Consent, to the Maidens great joy.

Pepys 3.176 Jolly Ralph the Joyner,/ OR,/ Kind Kate the Cookmaid./ Sweet Kate and Ralph secure and safe/ In folded Arms they lay,/ And spent the night in sweet delight,/ Till almost break of day.

Pepys 3.180 ALEXIS LOYALTY:/ OR, Fair Aminta's Sorrows Crowned with unspeakable Joy and Happiness/ BEING/ An Answer to My Life and my Death:

Pepys 3.184 An Excellent New SONG, Called,/ Rare News for the Female Sex./ Or, Good Luck at last.

Pepys 3.187 The Charming ECCHO./ The Shepherdess sat all alone,/ Close by the River-side;/ VVhilst her poor Dear with making moan,/ For Love had almost Dy'd.

Pepys 3.188 THE/ Downfall of Dancing;/ OR,/ The overthrow of three Fidlers, and three Bagg-Pipe-Players,/ Who Lately broke all their Fiddles and Bagg-pipes, and Tore their Cloaks; so that they/ are utterly ruin'd: All this was done in a fearful Fray, when one of the Fidlers catch'd his/ Wife with his Fellow Bagg pipe player, at Uptails all.

Pepys 3.189 The ANSVVER to the/ Buxome VIRGIN./ The Farmer well-fitted, for slighting his first Love Honest Joan./ When Men can be so false as he,/ And Waver with the Wind,/ I do protest, I do not jest,/ They're fitted in their kind.

Pepys 3.190 THE/ Wanton Maidens Choice./ No Landed Men nor Farmers are for she,/ She delights not in that Wealthy Company:/ No Taylors, Joyners, Gentle-Craft, or any,/ But a thumping Tinker that can pay her Cunny.

Pepys 3.205 The True-Lovers Glory./ Where two Lovers kind and free,/ Doth both express their Loyalty,/ And may to all a pattern be,/ For to delight in Constancy.

Pepys 3.208 Sport upon Sport:/ OR, The Man in the S------/ Maids where are your hearts become look ye what here is./ Being a true Relation of a Pleasant Fellow that in the attire of a Woman lay with several/ Maids, and got them with Child.

Pepys 3.209 Innocent Shepherd and the Crafty Wife/ Or, A Dialogue between a Shepherd and his Love./ Brethren, see here what some be Born unto,/ If it's your Birth right, what should Women do?/ Kind things they think, they do all for the best,/ But so or not, we must Contented rest.

Pepys 3.210 THE/ New-Blossom'd Marigold;/ OR,/ The Maids Consent to the Young-Mans Request,/ Within Serrellas Breast Love Lurkin lies,/ Paying Devotion to Laretta's eyes:/ Who scorn'd him for a time, but then the Lass,/ Her Marigold was open'd on Grass.

Pepys 3.219 Cupids Courtisie,/ OR,/ The young Gallant foil'd at his own Weapon./ He scorned Cupid and his Dart,/ Until he felt a wounded heart.

Pepys 3.220 The Maidens Complaint against Young=Mens Unkindness./ Of Young-Mens falshood she doth much complain,/ Resolving never to love Man again:/ Experience tells her Men Love but for a Fashion,/ Which makes her rail against them in such passion.

Pepys 3.229 Fair LUCINA/ Conquered/ By prevailing Cupid./ She that triumphed in disdain, at last was forc'd to yeild,/ And of her self she thus complain'd, when Cupid won the Field:/ Though at the first I was unkind, yet now i'le loving be,/ And that my Coridon shall I find if he'l return to me,/ When Coridon did hear these words, he did most joyfully/ Embrace his kind, and dearest Love; and they did both agree.

Pepys 3.236 The London Lasses Folly,/ OR,/ The MAIDEN Beguil'd./ This Maiden wild she was Beguil'd,/ to loose her Maiden-Head,/ And when that he had got his will,/ away from her he fled.

Pepys 3.238 London Miss well fitted,/ OR, AN ANSWER/ To the Four-pence-Halfpenny Farthing./ And now she perfectly doth find/ that she is quite Forsaken;/ Thus she is fitted in her kind,/ If I may not mistaken.

Pepys 3.241 THE/ Bucksome Lass of Westminster,/ OR,/ Her kind proffer of two hundred pound, together with a Cargo of Coals from New-Castle, to any young-/ man, that would in kindness help her out at a dead lift.

Pepys 3.247 The Languishing SWAIN/ made Happy: Or, The Kind Return of his Clorinda.

Pepys 3.250 A Market for young Men:/ OR, A/ Publick Sale in sundry Places in and about London, where young/ beautiful Virgins and graz'd Widows are to be sold for Clip'd Money, at rea-/ sonable Rates.

Pepys 3.252 The Honour of a London Prentice./ Wherein is declared his matchless Manhood, and brave Adventures, done by him in/ Turkey, and by what means he Married the Kings daughter of the same Country.

Pepys 3.254 The Sorrowful CITTIZEN,/ Or, The Couragious PLOVV-MAN./ With the Witty Answer of a Country Damosel./ You Citizens I pray beware,/ that does this Story hear;/ Dote not too much on Beauty fair,/ lest this may prove your share.

Pepys 3.256 True Love Exalted:/ Or, A Dialogue between a Courteous young Knight of the/ City of London, and a Searge Weavers Daughter of Devonshire./ Shewing how the young Knight was Travelling in Devon-shire, and fell in Love with a fair Maid/ there: How he Courted her to be his Miss, but she not yielding to his Lascivious desires, he/ was so much in Love with her Vertue, that he Marryed her, and made her a Lady, and carryed/ her to the Kings Court at London, where they now live in joy and happiness.

Pepys 3.258 True Love Requited,/ Or, The Bayliffs Daughter of Islington./ The young-man's Friends the Maid did scorn,/ 'Cause she was poor and left forlorn,/ They sent the Esquire to London fair,/ To be an Apprentice seven year./ And when he out on's time was come,/ He met his Love a going home,/ And then to end all farther strife,/ He took the Maid to be his Wife.

Pepys 3.263 The Country FARMER;/ OR, THE/ Buxome VIRGIN.

Pepys 3.267 The MAIDENS Moan,/ OR,/ Her sad and sorrowful Complaint for want of a Husband./ Let not my witness be withstood,/ young men some pity shew;/ You know that I am Flesh and Blood/ Alas! as well as you.

Pepys 3.271 The Shooemaker Out-witted:/ OR,/ The Gentlecraft's Man cunningly Catch'd by a Crafty Lass of SURRY.

Pepys 3.272 The Dorset-shire DAMOSEL:/ OR,/ Young NANCY at her last Prayer./ Containing her earnest request to Ralph the Miller, to be satisfied whether he wou'd have her or no: Concluding/ with his kind Answer.

Pepys 3.280 The Doctor and Beggar=Wench/ OR,/ The Barkshire FROLLICK./ Since he his Credit thus did stain,/ in doing thus amiss,/ He'll never do the like again,/ he ha enough of this.

Pepys 3.282 wandring PRINCE/ and PRINCESS/ Or, Musidorus and Amandine, both of Royal Prognry, who being unfortunately/ seperated by means of their Parents disagreeing; as fortunately met in a/ Desert, while they both resolved never to cease from searching, till they/ had found out each other./ In shady Deserts where was none/ but Beasts to hear these Lovers moan,/ There these faithful Lovers met,/ Their Marriage day was quickly set.


Pepys 3.287r THE/ Young Damsels Lamentation:/ OR, THEIR/ Dreadful Outcry against the late Punching,/ WHICH/ Has crack'd above four hundred and fifty West-country Maiden-heads.

Pepys 3.302 THE/ Quaker's Wives Lamentation/ For the LOSS of/ Her Husbands Jewels,/ VVho Gelded himself (in Petticoat-Lane,) to vex his wife.

Pepys 3.309 The Woman Warrier:/ BEING/ An Account of a young Woman who lived in Cow=Cross, near West-Smithfield; who/ changing her Apparel Entered her self on Board, in quallity of a Soldier, and sailed to/ Ireland, where she Valliantly behaved her self, particularly at the Siege of Cork, where/ she lost her Toes and received a Mortal Wound in her Body, of which she since Dyed/ in her return to London.

Pepys 3.328 Two Unfortunate LOVERS./ Or, A true Relation of the lamentable end of John True and Susan Mease. Their lives this Ditty doth relate,/ And how she dy'd Unfortunate.

Pepys 3.342 The Musical Shepherdess, or, Dorinda's Lamentation for the loss of Amintas./ Amintas all Arcadia's Glory was,/ A youth so sweet that all he did surpass,/ But Times all mowing Sith this flower did cut,/ fate to his days the last period put:/ For Musick, and for singing, who but he,/ Was fit to help the Gods with Harmony?/ His fair Dorinda, seeing he was gone,/ And she poor Mournful Damsel left alone./ Invokes the Nymphs to sing his praise,/ Whilst she a Garland Weaves, then ends her days./ Resolving not to stay behind her Love,/ She being deny'd him here, mounts up above.

Pepys 3.345 The Lovers Joy and Grief, Or,/ A Young-mans Relation, in a pittiful fashion./ Being from his Love hindred, by Locks, Bolts, and Kindred.

Pepys 3.346 Pyramus and Thisbe: Or, Love's Master-piece:/ Behold the downfall of two Lovers Dear,/ And to their Memorys, let fall a Tear,/ A sad mistake their Ruine did procure,/ When as they thought their FriendshiP should endure;/ Oh Cruel Fate! That Cut them off in Prime,/ And for Enjoyment, would afford no time.

Pepys 3.353 THE TRUE/ Lovers Lamentable Overthrow,/ OR, THE/ Damosels Last Farewell./ Who lately Dyed with grief for the Loss of her Dearest Love. who was the joy of her/ Life./ You Damsels all both far and near,/ Come to her Silent Tomb,/ And pay to her a Pearled Tear./ As Flowers of Perfume.

Pepys 3.354 Olimpa's Unfortunate Love;/ OR,/ GALLIUS his Treacherous Cruelty./ A new Song, as it is Sung in a Play, called, The Spansh Fryer./ At the Kings Theater, with great applause./ Fairest Olimpia at last being won,/ Did yield to Gallius, who has her undone./ Her Honour's lost, & he does her neglect/ His ends being gain'd he shews her no respect;/ But flies her arms, whilst that false man she crys/ And in her Blood her fatal Dagger dyes.

Pepys 3.357 The Dying Tears of a true lover forsaken,/ Made on his Death=bed; the Hour before his Death.

Pepys 3.363 The two Unfortunate Lovers:/ OR, THE/ Flintshire 'SQUIRE and Shropshire MAID's Misfortunes,/ as you shall find in this following Treatise.

Pepys 3.368 The Lamenting Shepherdess:/ OR,/ The Unkind Shepherd./ See here the pattern of true love,/ Whose Constancy out-vies the Dove;/ And though forsaken, still she crys/ She will be constant till she dyes.

Pepys 3.378 A Strange Apparition:/ OR,/ The second Meeting of two self-murthering Lovers./ Phillis and Phillander./ Mistaken Phillis Kill'd her self,/ thinking Philander Slain;/ Philander quickly followed her,/ and now they'r met again.


Pepys 3.390 The Love-sick/ SERVING-MAN;/ SHEWING/ How he was Wounded with the Charms of a young Lady, and did/ not dare to reveal his Mind.

Pepys 4.6 An Excellent Ditty, called the Shepherds wooing Dulcina.


Pepys 4.9 Hey ho, for a Husband./ Or, the willing Maids wants made known./ Full Fifteen years she hath remaind a Maid,/ Which makes her grieve, that she so long hath staid,/ To any trade she well can turn her hand,/ As by her speeches you may understand/ And to all sorts of humours can submit/ Being active, brisk, and of a nimble wit.


Pepys 4.18 Tom and Rogers Contract:/ Or what Devon-Farmers use to act./ Two Farmers lately met in Devon-shire,/ And so by chance they drank a pot of Beer;/ And since it was within the Month of May,/ And so by chance they drank a pot of Beer; I will declare to you what they did say.

Pepys 4.20 The Swimming Lady:/ Or, A Wanton Discovery,/ Being a true Relation of a gay Lady (betrayed by her Lover) as she was stripping her/ self stark naked, and Swimming in a River near Oxford.


Pepys 4.21 THE/ Oxfordshire Damosel:/ Or, The London MERCHANTS Choice./ Her Beauty Bright was his Delight,/ But yet she said him nay,/ She would not yield to him the Field,/ Till marriage made the way.


Pepys 4.23 Modesty Amazed; Or,/ The Dorset-shire Damosel importunate with her Mother to know Rogers meaning in/ Wooing. In which she is fully satisfied by her Mother; together with Rogers love/ and loyalty.


Pepys 4.30 The Bashful Virgin:/ Or,/ The Secret Lover./ Cupid hath wounded her unto the heart,/ Which makes her feel a Love tormenting smart,/ Yet she (poor heart) is loath for to discover/ Her real grief unto her dearest Lover,/ At length she courage takes, and doth reveal/ What she long time intended to conceal.


Pepys 4.38 Couragious JOCKEY/ OR, CUPID'S Victorious Triumph/ Young Jenny is kind, by this we find,/ when love did him allure;/ His wounded heart, and cruel smart,/ she willingly did cure.


Pepys 4.45 THE/ Distasted Lovers Dovvnfall,/ Or, the shepherds dying Complaint, concerning the ingratitude/ of his Love./ The Shepherd Corydon doth seek Relief/ From cruel Daphnis who augments his grief.


Pepys 4.61 The LUNATICK Lover;/ OR,/ The Young-Man's Call to Grim King of the Ghosts for Cure.


Pepys 4.62 The West-Country Squire:/ OR, The Beautiful Lasses Honour and Honestly Crown'd with true Love, and/ lasting Happiness.


Pepys 4.63 The Noble and Imprison'd/ PROTESTANTS:/ OR, A Copy of VERSES on/ A Young Lord and Lady, now Prisoners in the Castle of Dublin, under the sharp/ and severe Cruelty of the French and Irish Papists.


Pepys 4.66 An ANSWER to the/ MAIDENS Frollick:/ OR, THE/ Taylors Resolution to be Reveng'd of these Petticoat Press-Masters, by Bob-/ tailing their Gowns and Petticoats for the future, more than ever they have/ done heretofore.


Pepys 4.80 Nothing like to a good Wife:/ Let a Man consider to the end,/ A Loving Wife is his best Friend;/ In sickness and in health I say,/ She will stick to him night and day,/ Oh a Loving Wife, I say give me,/ And let all Light Huswifes Carted be:/ There's never no Man by them gets good/ If things be rightly understood:/ Unwholsome Ware, I say they be/ An Honest Wife of ones One, for my Money.


Pepys 4.81 A Looking-Glass for Ladies,/ OR,/ A mirrour for married-women./ Lively setting forth the rare Constancy, Chastity, Patience, and purity of Penelope the/ Wife of Ulisses, one of the Grecian Generals, who during the Ten Years absence of her/ Husband at the siege of Troy, was solicited, and importun'd, by numbers of Emminent/ Suitors; who attempted her chastity, and endeavoured to violate her Honour, but never/ could prevail. She addicted her self wholly to Charity, and good Housewifery, until her Husbands return./ Which may serve as a Pattern for all Ladies, Gentlewomen, and others to/ Imitate her vertuous Example.

Pepys 4.83 The Somersetshire LADY:/ CONTAINING/ Her sorrowful Lamentation for her Misfortunes, in an Extravagant SPENDTHRIFT,/ who by Riotous Living, brought her to Ruine.


Pepys 4.85 Advice to the Ladies of/ LONDON, In the Choice of their Husbands.

Pepys 4.86 An ANSWER to the/ Advice to the Ladies of London,/ Wherein is set forth a Glance of their Craft and Subtilty: Or, The Fop well fitted/ by one of their late Stratagems./ Behold and see the Subtitlty/ of London Misses, when/ They can compleat a Crafty Cheat,/ they make a prey of Men.


Pepys 4.87 ADVICE/ To Young Gentlemen;/ OR, An Answer to the LADIES of LONDON,


Pepys 4.88 The wonderful Praise of a Good Husband,/ Or, The Kind and Careful Mothers Counsel to her Daughter./ Bad Husbands they, oft run astray,/ as being most Unkind:/ But Good we see, will always be/ of a far better mind.

Pepys 4.92 The Poor Mans Comfort. / Being an Excellent new Composed Dialogue, between a Man and his Wife, / drawn up in a Coppy of Verses according to the Time, In which Ditty is con-/tained four special matters to be taken notice of, which is as followeth: A des-/pairing Husband a comfortable wife, the deadness of Trading, and and a way to thrive / in hardness of Trading, and a way to thrive in hard Times.

Pepys 4.95 The Hasty Bride-Groom./ OR,/ The rarest sport that hath been try'd/ Between a lusty Bride-groom and his Bride.


Pepys 4.97 POOR ROBIN'S/ Miserable Misfortunes./ OR,/ The late Experience of a Golden-Plaister to be a perfect cure of a painful Melody.

Pepys 4.101 A Warning for Married Women./ Being an Example of Mrs. Jane Reynolds (a west-country-Woman) born neer Plimouth/ who having plighted her troth to a Seaman, was afterwards married to a Carpenter,/ and at last carried away by a Spirit, the manner how shall presently be recited.


Pepys 4.103 Advice to Batchelors,/ OR,/ The Married Mans Lamentation./ Take heed you that Unmarried are,/ How you do make your Choice;/ But if a good Wife you do find,/ Twill make your heart Rejoyce.

Pepys 4.11 The Court=Miss Converted:/ OR, A Looking Glass for Ladies./ Her former errours she doth now repent,/ And with unfeigned tears the same lament;/ Resolving now a godly life to lead,/ And in such wicked paths no more to tread,/ VVhich may a good example be to all,/ To rise from sin, if they by frailty fall.


Pepys 4.113 The West-Country Wedding:/ OR,/ Honest Susan's good Fortune, who resisting the Tempations of her aged Master the Baker, became/ his careful Bride, and Mistress of all his Treasure.

Pepys 4.116 The Sorrowful Wife:/ OR,/ LOVE in a TUB.

Pepys 4.117 Mirth for Citizens: Or, A Comedy for the Country./ Shewing,/ A young Farmer his unfortunate Marriage,/ His Wife is so churlish, so currish in Carriage,/ He married her for beauty, for his own delight,/ Now he repents it both day and night./ By Physognomy, adviseth young men that at (Wenches skip/ To be sure to look before that they lip;/ To leap at a venture and catch a fall,/ Raising the Fore head, breaks Horns and all.


Pepys 4.125 A New Western BALLAD,/ Of a Butcher that Cuckolded the Farmer./ Good Husbands all be loving to your wives,/ For that's the way to live contented lives;/ But if you'r negligent, you may be sure/ They'l ne'r want that they can elsewhere procure.

Pepys 4.139 The Country Cuckold:/ OR,/ The Buxome Dames Frollick in a Field of RIE,/ with her Lusty Gallant.

Pepys 4.144 Mirth for Citizens: Or, A Comedy for the Country./ Shewing,/ A young Farmer his unfortunate Marriage,/ His Wife is so churlish, so currish in Carriage/ He married her for beauty, for his own delight,/ Now he repents it both day and night./ By Physognomy, adviseth young men that at (Wenches skip,/ To be sure to look before that they lip,/ To leap at a venture, and catch a fall,/ Raising the Forehead, breaks Horns, and all.


Pepys 4.156 A Pleasant New Song betwixt a Saylor and his Love;


Pepys 4.160 A Pleasant New Song betwixt a Saylor and his Love;

Pepys 4.17 The/ Crafty Maid of the West:/ OR,/ The lusty brave Miller of the Western Parts finely trapan'd./ A merry new Song to fit Young-men and Maids.


Pepys 4.173 Love and Loyalty;/ OR,/ A Letter from a Young-Man, on Board of an English Privateer,/ to his beloved Susan in the City of London.

Pepys 4.177 A Ship-load of Waggery/ OR/ clouded Merriment to please young Men and Maids./ Maidens, here's long and strong, both great and small;/ For one poor penny you may purchase all.

Pepys 4.184 The Seamens Wives Frolick OVER/ A BOWL of PUNCH;/ Shewing how a Jolly Company of Seamens Wives met together to be Merry with a Bowl of PUNCH, and/ the Delicate pastime that happened thereupon. With their Merry Song in praise of PUNCH./ The Jolly Dames were Merry bent,/ And to be Brisk was their intent:/ Then to the Ale-house they did go,/ Their Love to Nobleness to show./ For a lusty Bowl of PUNCH they joyn,/ Which empts their Pockets of their Coin.

Pepys 4.188 THE/ Algier Slaves Releasment:/ OR, The Unchangeable Boat-wain./ No Prison like the Jayl of Love,/ nor no such torments found,/ To those that loyal mean to prove,/ whose loves are firm and sound;/ This loyal person ne'r would change,/ like a true Lover he;/ Indur'd his fetters and his Chains,/ and Betty's Captive be.

Pepys 4.201 Neptunes Raging Fury./ OR, The Gallant Seamans Sufferings./ Being a Relation of their perils and dangers, and of the extraordinary hazzards they/ undergo in their Noble adventures: Together with their Undaunted Valour and rare/ Constancy in all their extremities, And the manner of their Rejoycing on shore, at/ their return home.

Pepys 4.228 London mourning in Ashes;/ OR,/ Lamentable Narrative lively expressing the Ruine of that Royal City by fire which/ began in Pudding-lane on September the second, 1666, at one of the clock in the/ morning being Sunday, and continuing until Thursday night following, being the/ sixth day, with the great care the King, and the Duke of York took in their own/ Persons, day and night to quench it.

Pepys 4.229 My Dog and I:/ We Write no Fights of Du[t]ch or French,/ No courting of a handsome VVench,/ No Monsters, VVonders in the Air,/ No persons dying in dispair;/ Nor any anything under the Sky,/ But onely of my Dog and I.

Pepys 4.236 The West-Country MISER:/ OR, AN/ Unconscionable Farmer's Miserable End:/ Who having Hoarded up his Corn in hopes it would rise to a higher Price, was Disappointed so that he fell into Despair, and/ {} by the fright of an Apparition.

Pepys 4.246 The young Gallants Tutor,/ Or, An Invitation to Mirth./ Here is an Antedote against allsadness,/ And a sweet Motive unto joy and gladness,/ For mirth doth to our lives such pleasure bring,/ It makes us live as happy as a King,/ From our fore fathers we this Maxime borrow,/ An ounce of Mirth is worth a pound of Sorrow,

Pepys 4.251 The Beggers Chorus,/ In the Jovial CREW.

Pepys 4.252 The Merry BEGGARS/ of Lincolns-Inn Fields./ OR, The Beggers Art to get Money./ Shewing all the Pranks and Tricks they use, to make people believe they are Poor. Also,/ How a Gentleman served two Beggers that stood on the High-way craving his Charity,/ whereby their Roguery was discovered./ The Begger all the day makes moan,/ at night is brisk and jolly;/ And spends his gains upon good Beer,/ to drown his Melancholly.

Pepys 4.256 THE/ Wonderful Praise of Money:/ Or; An Account of the many Evils that attend the ill Use thereof./ Money when Us'd, and not Abus'd,/ will do Men good, we know:/ But when they shall Consume it all,/ it proves their Overthrow.

Pepys 4.268 The BIRDS Harmony./ The Silvan woods seem'd to complain/ of gross inconstancy, the Birds in vain/ Did warble forth their griefs to ease their minds,/ and all did Sympathize, though ease none finds.

Pepys 4.273 Down-Right Dick of the West./ OR,/ The Plow-Mans Ramble to LONDON,/ To see my Lord-Mayor and the rest of the Vine Volk of the City, with what hapned while he there re-/mained.

Pepys 4.281 The Wonder of Wonders:/ OR,/ An Excellent SONG of a/ Six-Legged Creature.

Pepys 4.288r Whipping TOM,/ Or, The deceitful KINSMAN./ Maidens beware who you do trust,/ For promises may fail,/ And when you'r bound for to obey,/ Your Prayers will not prevaile.

Pepys 4.304 Poor Robin's Prophesie, or, The merry Conceited Fortune-teller./ Although the Poet makes no large Apology,/ Some insight he may have into AsTrology,/ Then buy this Song, and give your Judgment of it./ And then perhaps you'l say he's a Small Prophet,/ For he can tell when things will come to pass,/ That you will ay is strange as ever was.

Pepys 4.305 A New Mournful Ballad,/ CALLED/ The Duke of Allbemarle's Farewell,/ Who lately departed this Life, in the Island of Jamaica; being sent there as Governour,/ by his present Majesty, in the Year of our Lord, 87. and died in the Year 88.

Pepys 4.312 A/ NEW SONG:

Pepys 4.321 THE/ French CRYER/ Newly arriv'd in ENGLAND.

Pepys 4.330 THE/ Inn-keeper's Complaint;/ OR, THE/ Country Victuallor's Lamentation for the Dearness of MALT,/ Which hinder's their affording their Shot-Flaggons: concluding with a Hope/ of seeing happy Days after this Royal Decent.

Pepys 4.337 The Brewers Answer;/ Or, Their Vindication, against those Aspersions that hath been put upon them/ concerning the Double Excise.

Pepys 4.339 LONDONS PRAISE,/ OR, The Glory of the CITY./ Shewing the great Glory of the most Famous City in the whole World, called London: with a Descri-/ption of my Lord Mayors shew in what manner; and how he is accompanyed by the noble Court/ of Aldermen,and the City Companies, and in what pomp and state they are attended, first by wa-/ter to Westminster, and as they return back by land through Cheap-side to Guild-Hall, the like not to be seen in any City in the whole world.

Pepys 4.343 THE/ Frightned People of Clarkenwel,/ Being an Account how a COW Ran into the Church at Clarkenwel in Sermon time, on Sun-/day the 18th of this Instant August, 1689,

Pepys 4.356 A Warning and good Counsel to the/ WEAVERS.

Pepys 4.357 The Country-Mans Kalender,/ Or, His Astrological-Predictions for the ensuing year 1692./ Being a brief Almanack without e're a Lye;


Pepys 4.371 [THE]/ Young-Man & Maidens Fore-cast;/ SHEWING HOW/ They Reckon'd their Chickens before they were Hatcht.

Pepys 5.56 THE/ Boast of Great Britain;/ OR,/ A SONG in praise of MARY present Queen of/ England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c.

Pepys 5.58 ENGLAND's HAPPINESS:/ OR, THE/ Loyal Subjects Unspeakable Joy/ FOR THE/ Safe Return of King William,/ FROM THE/ Warlike Country of FLANDERS, to the Kingdom of ENGLAND,/ where he landed on the 30th Day of October, 1693, to the Joy and Comfort of all Loy-/ al Subjects.

Pepys 5.65 ROYAL Courage,/ OR,/ King WILLIAM's Happy Success in Ireland.

Pepys 5.66 The Loyal VVISH:/ Being a Congratulation of the Happy Return of His Majesty/ to England;/ together with His Magnanimous Triumph/ over the poor Teague-Landers.

Pepys 5.73 TEAGVE and MONSIEVR'S Lamentation/ One to another at/ LIMERICK,/ When hearing of King WILLIAM's coming, Mounsieur/ and all his Crew flies from thence.

Pepys 5.93 The Royal HEALTH,/ (Three Glasses in an Hand)/ To the King, to The Queen, To the Protestant Religion.

Pepys 5.105 Protestant OBSERVATOR:/ OR,/ A Touch of the strange Turn of the TIMES,/ From the Reign of Queen Mary in 1555, to this present Year.

Pepys 5.113 The Religious Turncoat;/ Or, a Late/ Jacobite Divine turn'd Williamite,

Pepys 5.123 THE TRU/ Protestant's Triumph:/ OR,/ LILLI-BOLERO/ In ENGLISH.

Pepys 5.137 The Valliant Damsel;/ Giving an Account of a Maid at Westminster, who/ put her self in Mans Apparel, and Listed her/ self for a Soldier for the Wars of Flanders.

Pepys 5.147 The Tavern Query, or/ The Loyal Health.

Pepys 5.161 The West-Country Frolick: / OR, / Buxome Kate's Merry Intreague. / SHEWING / How she serv'd ROBIN, the Faint-hearted Miller, who was afraid / to Encounter with her Maiden-head.

Pepys 5.173 The Young Lovers Enquiry:/ OR;/ The Batchelors Question to Cupid.

Pepys 5.174r THE/ Young Lover's ENQUIRY:/ OR,/ The Batchelor's Question to Cupid.

Pepys 5.189 The Shepherds Happiness:/ OR,/ An Advice to Ladies./ Being an Excellent New SONG in the last New OPERA.

Pepys 5.232 THE/ Contented Lovers;/ OR,/ Dioclesions WISH Obtain'd/ Who for the Love of Fair Drusilla forsook his/ Royalty.

Pepys 5.279 The Weeping Lady:/ OR,/ The Fortune of WAR:/ CONTAINING/ Her Lamentation for the Loss of her Love,/ A/ Noble COMMANDER,/ WHO/ Was slain in the late Famous Battle of Landen, in Flanders.

Pepys 5.291 An ANSWER/ TO/ The Wronged LADY:/ OR, THE/ Young Nobleman's Dying LAMENTATION,/ FOR/ The LORD's Daughter of Leicestershire;/ Who lately broke her Heart for the love of him: the Remembrance of which he/ laid to Heart, so that it cost him his Life also.

Pepys 5.332 The two Unhappy Lovers;/ Being a Wealthy Merchant who broke his heart for Love, and the/ Mercers Beautiful Daughter, who after his Death, Poysoned her self/ in dispair.

Pepys 5.337 The Young=Mans Lamentation:/ BEING/ An Answer to the Maid that Dy'd for Love in Wood's-Close, near/ St. John's-street: Together with his earnest desire to leave this Life, and/ follow his Love to the Grave.

Pepys 5.377 TORRINGTONIA,/ OR,/ A New Copy of Verses/ ON THE/ Late Sea Engagement.

Pepys 5.398 THE/ Thankful Country Lass,/ OR,/ The Jolly Batchelor kindly entertained.

Pepys 5.399 THE/ Young VVomens Complaint/ FOR/ Pressing the Old Ones,/ Shewing their Willingness above the rest to serve/ the KING, the Souldiers, and to be Prest.

Pepys 5.402 An Excellent New Copy of Verses/ On John Foster,/ Who was Tryed for stealing/ A Magpye and Cage.

Pepys 5.410 New Play-House-Song;/ OF THE/ HUSBANDMAN's DELIGHT:/ SUITING THE/ Humours of a Country Life

Pepys 5.415 The United LOVERS,/ OR, THE/ Poet's Opinion,/ CONCERNING/ The Male and Female-Sex:/ BEING/ A new Song lately Sung in the Theatre.

Pepys 5.421 The London Lottery:/ OR,/ Simple SUSAN, the Ambitious Damsel of Bishopgate-street,/ Who pawn'd her Night-rail and Smock, with other Apparel, for raising Money, in hopes to gain the Lot of three/ thousand Pound, or two thousand five hundr'd at least; with an Account of her Glory that ended in a/ Blank.

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