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English 231: Selden on Ballads
 

from John Selden's Table-Talk

"Libells"

"Though some make slight of Libells; yet you may see by them, how the Wind sits. As take a straw, and throw it up into the Air; you shall see by that which way the Wind is; which you shall not do, by casting up a Stone. More solid things do not shew the Complexion of the Times, so well as Ballads and Libells."

 
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