Professor: Patricia Fumerton
Time and Place: T 2:00-4:30, EMC (SH 2510)
Office Hours: SH 2506, T 4:30-5:00 and by appt.

Links to Other Ballad Sites

DESCRIPTION:

We will study the culture of the most published and most read of literary forms in early modern England: the broadside ballad. In the first weeks of the course, we will situate ballads within their historical, political, social, and aesthetic contexts. We will read a sampling of ballads of the period together with critical works about them, and consider the kinds of persons who wrote and published ballads, as well as the nature of ballad music (tunes and refrains), formal features of the ballads (woodblock images, black-letter print, meter), practices of circulation, and some recurrent themes popular in the period. We will then focus on the Pepys ballad collection, reading and analyzing ballads that fall into some of Pepys’s categories as well as (for students new to the course) mounting online transcriptions of and citations for some of the over 1,800 ballads in the EMC’s Pepys Ballad Archive (PBA): <http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/index.asp>.

As part of this “hands on” approach, an excursion to the Huntington library will be offered (February 24 th) in order to view the library’s collection of mostly 16 th century broadsides, known as the Britwell collection.

REQUIREMENTS:

Regular attendance and participation.

1) for students relatively new to ballad study (those who did not take my ballad course in Fall 2004: one oral report (5-10 minutes) on a group of ballads we have read for the day; the mounting of 5 facsimile transcriptions for the PBA in Xballad; and a research essay (10 pages in length).

2) for continuing students from the Fall 2004 ballad course: one oral report (5-10 minutes) on the topic of ballad culture you have been investigating (as well as a short written essay, on the subject); also, reading all the ballads in the Pepys category you have been assigned and writing another short essay about them for our contracted Pepys Ballads edition. Essays should be 3-4 and 4-5 pages, respectively. The second essay may be submitted at the end of spring quarter.

TEXTS:

Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1650, available in the UCSB bookstore (2 copies will also be available in the EMC)
A Reader, available from the Alternative Copy shop, Isla Vista.

Recommended Reading 

CALENDAR

Jan. 9 T
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO COURSE
Planning a ballad course; planning an edition.

Jan. 16 T
THE EMERGENCE OF THE BROADSIDE BALLAD:
ORALITY, AUDIENCE, PRINTERS, AND CIRCULATION

Critical Readings:

Fiona McNeill, “Ballads,” Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kasten ( Oxford, 2006), 5 pp. (Reader)

Preface to the Francis James Child’s 1st edition of English and Scottish Ballads (1860), pp. 1-3 (Reader)

Bruce R. Smith, “Ballads Within, Around, Among, Of, Upon, Against, Within,” in The Accoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor ( Chicago, 1999), pp. 168-205

Hyder E. Rollins, “The Black-Letter Broadside Ballad,” PMLA 34, no. 2 (1919): 258-339 (handout)

Robert S. Thomson, “Introduction” and “The Broadside Ballad Printer” (Part I, chaps. 1-2) in “The Development of the Broadside Ballad Trade and its Influence upon the Transmission of English Folksongs” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Queens’ College, 1974), pp. 5-80 (Reader).

Background Essays on PBA website:
“Printing Practices” (Kris McAbee and Jessica C. Murphy)
“The Stationers’ Company and the Ballad Partners” (Paxton Heymeyer)
“Developments in the Broadside Ballad” (Paxton Heymeyer)
“Chapbook Trade” ( Eric Nebeker)

Ballad Readings:
In EBBO:
Thomas Churchyard, “Dauy Dycars Dreame” (1552)
Thomas Camel, “To Dauid Dicars when” (1552)
William Elderton, "The Pages of Loue and Louers Ftts" (1559)
R. M., "An Epytaphe vpon the Death of M. Rycharde Goodricke Esquire" (1562)
Thomas Churchyard, "A Farewell Cauld, Churcheyeards, Rounde from the Courte to the Cuntry Grownd" (1566)
J. Canand, "The Fantasies of a Troubled Mannes Head" (1566)
William Elderton, A Ballat Intituled Northomberland Newes" (1570)
"George Barnwell," from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume I (Handout)
"Death of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex" (1603), Roxburghe, I.184 (Handout)

REPORTS #1-3: #1 on the emergence and development of the broadside ballad (Eric); #2 on audiences of, attitudes to, and uses of ballads (Pax); and #3 on ballad circulation via oral performance, printer/publishers, and hawker/peddlers (Jessica and Kris)

Naming and Creating Ballads (some perplexing terms)
Selden on Ballads
O.E.D. definition of "libel"

Jan. 23 T
THE FORMAL FEATURES OF BROADSIDE BALLADS:

Critical Readings:

Charles C. Mish, “Black Letter as a Social Discriminant in the Seventeenth Century,” PMLA 68 (1953): 627-30 (Reader).

Keith Thomas, “The Meaning of Literacy in Early Modern England,” in The Written Word: Literacy in Transition, ed. Gerd Baumann ( Oxford, 1986), pp. 97-131 (Reader).

Claude M. Simpson, “Introduction” to The Broadside Ballad and Its Music ( Rutgers Univ. Press, 1966), pp. ix –xxxiii (Reader)

Tessa Watt, Cheap Print, pp. 131-150, 165-168 (on illustrations)

Alexandra Franklin, “The Art of Illustration in Bodleian Broadside Ballads before 1820,” Bodleian Library Record, 17, no. 5 (2002): 327-52 (Reader)

Background Essays on PBA website:
"Ballad Measure" (Bill Gahan)
"Ballad Music" (Tassie Gniady)
"Black-letter Print" (Gery Egan)
"Papermaking" (Gery Egan)
"Woodcuts, Copper Engravings, and Cries" (Smone Chess)

Pepys Category Essays on PBA website:
"Devotion and Morality" (Gery Egan)
"State and Times" (Paxton Hehmeyer)
"Humour, Frollicks etc. mixt" (Kris McAbee)

Ballad Readings:
Under Pepys's category "Devotion and Morality":
Pepys 2.4-5 "St. Bernard's Vision" (1685) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.60-61 A Scourge for the Pope" (c. 1625) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.62 "A New-yeers-gift for the Pope" ( c. 1625) - facsimile transcription

Under Pepys's category "State and Times":
Pepys 1.178 "A Fooles Bolt is Soone Shot" (c. 1630) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.192-193 "Londons Ordinarie" (c. 1630) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 2.206 "Turners Dish of Lentten Stuffe, or a Galymaufery" (1612); Rollins Transription (Reader)
Martin Parker, "A New Medley," Roxburghe, I. 292-293 (Handoutr)
"The Map of Mock-begger Hall," Roxburghe, 1.252-253 (Handout)

Under Pepys's category "Tragedy":
Pepys 1.146-147 "A Lanthorne for Landlords" (c. 1630)

Under Pepys's category "Humour, Frollicks, etc. mixt":
Pepys 1.304-305 "The Witty Westerne Lasse" (1631) - facsimile transcriptiom

REPORTS #4-7: #4 on Ballad Measure (Bill), #5 on Ballad Tunes and Music (Revell), #6 on Black-letter Print (Gery), #7 on Ballad Illustrations (Simone)

Jan. 30 T
BALLAD COLLECTING: THE PEPYS BALLADS

Helen Weinstein, "Introduction," to Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, vol II: Ballads, Part i: Catalogue, pp. xv-lxii (Handout)

Richard Luckett, "The Collection: Origins and History," in Catalogue of the Pepys Library, Vol. II Ballads, Part ii: Indexes, pp. 1994 (Reader)

Pepys Ballad Edition team Background Essays due via email to the group by Sunday, January 28th; essays will be discussed in this class.

Feb. 6 T
MONSTER AND MARVEL BALLADS (ACROSS COLLECTIONS):

Critical Readings:

Mark Booth, “Broadside: ‘Description of a Strange Fish,” from his The Experience of Songs, pp. 97-113 (Reader)

Tassie Gniady, "Do You Take This Hog-Faced Woman to be Your Wedded Wife?," forthcoming Early Modern Broadsides and Ballads in Britain, 1500-1800, Ashgate Press (Reader)

Anita Guerrini, "Advertising Monstrosity: Broadsides and Human Exhibition in Early Eighteenth-Century London," forthcoming Early Modern Broadsides and Ballads (Reader) Powerpoint Presentation

Ballad Readings:

Strange Births (human):
From the Pepys Collection:
Pepys 1.44-45 "The Lamenting Lady" - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.404-405 "Rock the cradle, John, or Children after the rate of 24 in a yeare" - facsimile transcription
Pepys 2.66 "Prides Fall" - facsimile transcription
Pepys 4.285 "The Wonder of this Present Age" (conjoined twins) | word doc
Pepys 5.235 "The West=Country Wonder" (birth to 67 yr. old mother) | word doc

From the Bodleian Collections:
Gough Essex 24(2) William Elderton, "The true reporte of the forme and shape of a monstrous chyld"
Wood 401(135) "A Monstrous Shape or a Shapelesse Monster"
Gough Maps 25(34) "The fourme and shape of a monster childe"
Douce Ballads 3(28b) "The False Lover Rewarded"
Gough Maps 10(63) "The true description of a monsterous chylde borne in the Ile of wight"
Gough Maps 41o(49) "The true description of a monsterous chylde borne in the cytie of Anwarpe"

From the Roxburghe Collection:
Rox. 8.29 "The Long-Nos'd Lass" (Handout)
Rox. 8.26 "The Two Inseparable Brothers" (Handout)

Strange Births (animal):
Pepys 4.281 "The Wonder of Wonders, OR, An Excellent SONG of a Six-Legged Creature" | word doc
Pepys 4.310 "A Fair Warning for PRIDE" (top-knotted foal) | word doc

Fantastical Creatures:
Pepys 2.134 "Courage Crowned with Conquest" | word doc
Pepys 2.371r "THE French Monstrous Beast" (religious) | word doc

Strange Events:
Pepys 2.137 "A Ballad of the Strange and Wonderful Storm of Hail" | word doc
Pepys 2.189 "The Kentish Wonder" (one of many versions) | word doc
Bodleian: Wood 402(127) "A Description of a strange (and miraculous) Fish"
Pepys 1.72-73 "A Wonder in Kent" (feats of eating) | word doc

And from Pepys's "Promiscuous Supplement" category:
Pepys 1.546-547 "A Lamentable Ballad of the Tragical End of a Gallant Lord and a Vertuous Lady" - facsimile transcription
(this ballad, popularly known as "The Lady and the Blackamoor," appears also in Rox. 1.220-221 and 3.520-521; see Handout for slightly different looking woodcut)
Also:
Huntington Library Broadside: "Human Monsters!!" which sports the "Lady and the Blackamoor" woodcut (Handout)

Feb. 13 T
CROSSDRESSERS PRIMARILY IN THE PEPYS BALLADS (ACROSS CATEGORIES)

Critical Readings:

Dianne Dugaw, "Popular Balladry, Mary Ambree, and the Beginnings of the Female Warrior Motif, 1600-1650, in Warrrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850, pp. 15-42 (Reader)

Ballad Readings:

Rox. 2.92 "The Valarous Acts Performed at Gaunt, by the Brave Bonny Lass Mary Ambree" (Handout)
from Later English Broadside Ballads: "The Maid's Resolution to Follow Her Love" (Handout)

From the Pepys Collection:
Male to Female Crossdressers (MTF):
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 3.249 "The Country Cozen: Or/ The Crafty City Dame./ Who invited a Gentleman to her House in Woman apparel, whereby her Husband was decieved, he/ taking him for the Country Cozen, and how he found out, and punished the Deceipt)" - facsimile transcription

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 3.253 "The subtil Miss of LONDON;/ OR,/ The Ranting Hector well fitted by this cunning Miss,/ Who by putting certain Ingredients into his Wine, laid him into a deep sleep, and striping his Gallant At-/ tire, cloathed him in a red Petticoat, and a Coyson on his Head; then sent him in a great Chest by water to/ Gravesend"

Pepys 4.235 "The Frolicksome Duke:/ Or, The Tinker's good Fortune./ Who being found Dead Drunk, was conveyed to the Duke's Palace, where in a Bed of State he slept himself sober; the next/ day being honour'd as the real Duke till they made him as Drunk as before, and then left him where they first found him; he believing when/ he awaken'd, that all had been a Dream: together with the Duke's Kindness for the Frolick's Sake"

Female to Male (FTM):
Pepys 1.113 "The sorrowfull complaint of Susan Higges, a lusty Countrey Wench, dwelling in Risborrow in Buc-/ kinghamshire, who for twenty yeeres, most gallantly maintained her selfe by Robberies on the / high-way side, and such like practices. And lastly, how she was executed at Brickhill, at the Assises, / for a murther by her committed upon Messeldon heath" - facsimile transcription

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

Pepys 3.142 "The Famous Flower of SERVINGMEN./ OR,/ The Lady turn'd Serving-Man./ Her Love being slain, her Father dead,/ her bower rob'd, her Servants fled,/ She drest her self in Mans attire,/ She trim'd her locks, she cut her hair,/ And thereupon she chang'd her name,/ From fair Elise to sweet William"

Pepys 3.246 "The Female Frollick:/ OR,/ An Account of a young Gentlewoman, who went upon/ the Road to rob in Man's Cloaths, well mounted on a Mare, &c."

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" - facsimile transcription

Pepys 4.283 "The Valiant Dairy-Maid;/ OR,/ Three TAYLORS well Fitted./ Shewing how Three Taylors carried home Work to a Rich Farmers House, who having/ kindly Entertain'd them, and pay'd them their Money, were afterwards set upon and/ Robbed by Honest Joan the Dairy-Maid; who Dressing her self in Mans Attire,/ frighted the poor Taylors out of both Wit and Money, by vertue of a Rouling-Pin:/ Being very Pleasant, full of Mirth, and worth your Money"

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 5.324 "THE/ Scornful Damsels Overthrow,/ And The/ Young Maidens Frollick;/ Shewing how a Beautiful Damsel, in the City of London, was Courted by several young/ Men, whom she scornfully deny'd, disdaining their proffered Loves And how at last/ a young beautiful Maiden, in Mans Apparel did Woe her, and Wed her, and after the/ Wedding Dinner discovered her self: Which when the other Damsel beheld, she went out/ into the Fields, full of grief, and kill'd her self"

Pepys 5.366 "The Maiden Sailor:/ BEING/ A true Relation of a young Damsel, who was Press'd/ on Board the Edgar Man of War, being taken up in Seamans Ha-/bit; after being known, she was discharged, and at her examinati-/on, she declared she would serve the King at Sea, as long as her/ Sweet-heart continued in Flanders"

Pepys 5.424 "Comical NEWS from BLOOMSBURY./ THE FEMALE CAPTAIN:/ OR, THE / Counterfit Bridegroom:/ Giving a Full and True Relation how one Madam Mary Plunket, alias, WilliaSms;/ a young Woman of eighteen Years of Age, who put on Man's Apparel, assum'd the Name of/ Capt. Charles Fairfax set up for a young Heir, courted a young Gentlewoman of Blooms-/ bury, and by the consent of her Friends [in hopes of Gain] was married to her by a Jaco-/ bite Parson; they being at the Charge of the Wedding Cloaths, Ring, Dinner, &c. Of her/ living with the young Woman a whole Month undiscovered, using a strange Instrument for/ Generation, with the strange manner of the Discovery by an old Woman of the Pretended/ Captain's Acquaintance; how being taken up for a Cheat, and committed to the New Prison/ at Clearken-well, where she now remain"

Doublecrossed (FTM and MTF):
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 2.122 "Robin Hood and the Bishop / SHEWING / How Robin Hood went to an Old VVomans House and changed Cloaths with her, to escape from the Bi-/shop; and how he robbed him of all his Gold, and made him Sing Mass"

Pepys 4.100 "The Woman to the Plow / AND The Man to the Hen=Roost, / OR, a fine way to cure a Cot-Quean" - facsimile transcription

Feb. 20 T
PEPYS'S CATEGORIES:
"TRAGEDY" À LA HUSBAND MURDER AND "HISTORY - TRUE AND FABULOUS"

Critical Readings:

Simone Chess, "and I my vowe did keepe: Oath Making, Subjectivity and Husband Murder in 'Murderous Wife' Ballads," forthcoming Early Modern Ballads and Broadsides (Reader)

Frances E. Dolan, "Tracking the Petty Traitor Across Genres," forthcoming Early Modern Ballads and Broadsides (Reader)

Pepys Category Essays on PBA website:
"Tragedy - vzt. Murders, Executions, Judgments of God, etc." (Tassie Gniady)
"History - True and Fabulous" (Bill Gahan)

Ballad Readings:

Husband-Murder Ballads:
Sloane MS. 1896, fols. 8-11"The Wofull Lmentacon of Mrs. Anne Saunders" (1573) (Handout)
Rox. 1.182 "The Lamentation of Master Page's Wife of Plimmouth" (1591) (Handout)
Rox. 1.183 "The Lametnation of George Stranwidge" (1591) (Handout)
Rox. 3:156 "The Complaint and Lamentation of Mistresse Arden of Feuersham in Kent, Who for the Lovue of One Mosbie, Hired Certaine Ruffians and Villaines Most Cruelly to Murder her Husband; with the Fatall End of He and Her Associats" (handout)

From Pepys's Category of "Tragedy":
Pepys 1.124-125 "Anne Wallens Lamentation" (1616) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.120-121 "A Warning for all Desperate Women. By the Example of Alice Davis" (1628) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.122-123r "The Unnaturall Wife: Or, the Lamentable Murther, of One Goodman Davis, Locke-Smith in Tutle-streete, Who Was Stabbed to Death by his Wife" (1628) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.118 "A Warning for Wives, by the Example of One Katherine Francis" (1629) - facsimile trancription

"History - True and Fabulous":
a) Historial Events Interpretated as Visitations, Warnings, or Other Lessons from God:
Pepys 1.68-69r “The lamentable Burning of the Citty of Corke” (1622) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.70-71 “A battell of Birds” (1621) - facsimile transcription
b) Patriotic Ballads:
Pepys 1.94-95v “News from Argeir” (1623)
c) Legendary/Classical Stories:
Pepys 1.184-85 “The wandring Prince of Troy” (1630) - facsimile transcription
d) Patriotic but with Explicit Criticism:
Pepys 1.66-67 “ Cheapside’s Triumphs and Chyrones Crosses Lamentation” (1630) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.92-93 “A Memorable Song Upon the Unhappy Hunting in Chevy Chase” (1630) - facsimile transcription
e) Fables:
Pepys 1.76-77 “The Shepheard and the King, and of Gillian the Shepheards Wife” (1635) - facsimile trancription
f) from Vol. 2: Robin Hood:
Pepys 2.113 “Robin Hood & the Beggar”
Pepys 2.103 “Renowned Robin Hood: . . . Exploits Before Queen Katherine” - facsimile transcription
Pepys 2.106 “Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly from the Sheriff” - facsimile transcription

Feb. 24 Saturday
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY TRIP

Travel to view original Britwell ballads and other early modern broadsides in the Huntington library’s holdings; presentation at 11 am. - 12:30 pm. by Stephen Tabor, Curator of Early Printed Books

Feb. 27 T
"SEA"

Critical Readings:

Patricia Fumerton, "The Ballad's Seaman: A Constant Parting," in Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (Chicago, 2006), pp.131-52

Pepys Category Essayon PBA website:
"Sea - Love, Gallantry & Actions" (Laura Miller)

Ballad Readings:

"Sea":
All ballads listed below are included together as a grop in the Appendix to the Roxburghe edition (ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth), vol. 8, pp. 787-94:
From Neptune's Fair Garland (1686), "A New Song of Nelly's sorow at the parting with her well-beloved Henry, that was just ready to Set Sail to Sea" (Handout)
The sequel from the same Garland, "A New Song of Henry setting forth to Sea" (Handout)
Pepys 5.217 "An excellent New Song, Call'd Nelly's Constancy; Or, Her Unkind Lover. Who, after Contract of Marriage, leaves his first Mistress, for the sake of a better fortune" (also in Handout)
Earl of Jersey's Osterley Park Collection, 3.42 "The Seaman's Answer to his Unkind Lover" (Handout)
Pepys, 4.171 "The Faithful Marriner" (1692-93) (Handout)

More on "Sea" from the Pepys Collection:
Pepys 4.183 "The Poplar-Feast: Or, A Cat-Pasty"
Pepys 1.418-419 "The praise of Sailors" (c. 1630) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.420-421 Martin Parker, "Saylors for my money" (c. 1630) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.422-423 "A pleasant new Song, betweixt / The Saylor and his Loue" - facsimile transcription
Pepys 4.157 "A dainty new Ditty of a Saylor and his Love, / How one the others constancy did prove: / Wherein is shown the Seaman's constant mind, / Though that at the first he seem'd to her unkind"
Pepys 4.169 "The Unfeigned Lover, / Or, / The Loyal Seamans kind Farewell to his Beloved Nancy"
Pepys 4.175 "The Seamans / Return to his Sweetheart; / Or, The Constant Lovers happy Agreement"
Pepys 4.180 "A Jobb for a Journeyman-Shoomaker, / With a Kind-hearted Seamans Wife, his Landlady"
Pepys 4.191 Laurence Price, "The Seaman's Compass"
Pepys 4.193 "The Seamans sorrowful Bride"
Pepys 4. 201 Martin Parker, "Neptunes Raging Fury" - facsimile transcription
Pepys 4.206 "The Boatswains Call"
Pepys 4.212 "The Mothers Kindness, / Conquer'd by her Daughters Vindication of / Valiant and Renowned Seamen"
Pepys 4.220 "The Seamans Deceit"
Pepys 4.224 "The Young / Seaman's Misfortune"
Pepys 5.372 "The Cruel Lover: / Or, / The False-hearted Saylor"

Mar. 6 T
"LOVE - PLEASANT," "LOVE - UNFORTUNATE," "MARRIAGE, CUCKOLDRY, ETC.," AND "DRINKING & GOOD FELLOWSHIP"

Critical Readings:

Patricia Fumerton, "Not Home: Alehouses, Ballads, and the Vagrant Husband in Early Modern England," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:3 (2002): 493-518 (Handout)

Pepys Category Essays on PBA website:
"Love - Pleasant" (Kris McAbee)
"Love - Unfortunate (Jessica C.Murphy)
"Marriage, Cuckholdry, etc." (Jessica C. Murphy)
"Drinking & Good Fellowship" (Simone Chess)

Ballad Readings:

"Love - Pleasant":
Pepys 1.226-227 "Frauncis New Jigge" (?1617) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.274-275 "Foure pence halfe penney Farthing: / Or, / A Woman will haue the Oddes" (?1629) - facsimile transcription

"Love - Unfortunate":
Pepys 1.354-355 "The wofull complaint, and lamentable death of a forsaken Louer" (c. 1625) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 1.356-357 "The two Nottinghamshire Lovers,  or the Maid of Standon of  Not-/tinghamshire, and the  Leicestershire Man, which were linked together contra-/ry to their  Friends minds, but she was  inflamed in loue, that she  reque-/sted him from thence to goe;  and he resolued her so to doe,  ap-/pointing the place where they  should meet, but it was a heavy /  meeting as ere was knowne, as in  the Ditty shall be showne" (c. 1630) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 1.371 "A Loue-sick maids song, lately  beguild,/ By a run-away Louer that  left her with Childe" (?c. 1625) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 3.313 "The Distressed VIRGIN; Or,/ The  false young-man, and the constant  maid,/ The Qualities of them both displaid"

"Marriage, Cuckoldry, etc.":
Pepys 1.380-381 "The Lamentation of a new married man" (c. 1630) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 1.384-385 Martin Parker, "The wiving age. / Or A great complaint of the Maidens of London, / Who now for lacke of good Husbands are undone, / For now many Widowes though never so old, / Are caught up by young men for lucre of gold" (c. 1627) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 1.386-387 Martin Parker, "A Proverb 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" (c. 1625) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 1.390-391 "A constant Wife, a kinde Wife, / A  louing Wife, and a fine Wife, / Which  giues content vnto mans life" (1630) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 1.392-393 Martin Parker, "Man's Felicity and Misery: / Which is a  good wife and a bad: or the best and  the worst discoursed in / a Dialogue  betweene Edmund and Dauid" (1632) - facsimile tanscription

Pepys 1.406-407 "The Cuckowes Comendation:/ Or, the  Cuckolds Credit: Being a merry  Maying Song in Praise of the Cuckow" (c. 1625)

Pepys 1.412-413 John Cart, "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" (c. 1625) - facsimile transcription

Pepys 1.486-487,"The woful Lamentation of Mistris Jane Shore, a Gold-smiths VVife/ of London, sometimes King Edward the Fourth's Concubine. who for her wanton life came to a miserable/ end. Set forth for the example of all wicked livers" - facsimile transcription

Pepys 4.85 [Thomas D'Urfey], "Advice to the Ladies of/ LONDON, In  the Choice of their Husbands" (?1685-1687)

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 4.100 [Martin Parker], "The Woman to the Plow/ AND The Man to the Hen=Roost,/ OR, a fine way  to cure a Cot-Quean" - facsimile transcription

Pepys 4.106 [Thomas D'Urfrey], "THE/ Winchester Wedding:/ OR,/  Ralph of Reading, with Black Bess of  the Green,/ Did together resort,/ And  caused such sport,/ As before scarce ever was seen"

Pepys 4.118 [Laurence Price], "Dead and Alive./ This Ditty out of  Glocester=shire was sent,/ To London  for to have it put in PRINT: / Therefore draw near, and listen unto this,/ It doth  concern a man that did amiss,/ And so  to shun the anger of his Wife,/ He  thought with poyson for to end his life:/  But in the stead of poyson he drank  Sack,/ For which his Wife did soundly pay his Back"

Pepys 4.486-487,"The woful Lamentation of Mistris Jane Shore, a Gold-smiths VVife/ of London, sometimes King Edward the Fourth's Concubine. who for her wanton life came to a miserable/ end. Set forth for the example of all wicked livers."

"Drinking & Good Fellowship":
from Evans's Collection of Old Ballads: "The Good Fellows' Frolick: Or, Kent Street Club (Handout)
Rox. 1.138-139 Laurence Price, "Good Ale for my money" (Handout)
Rox. 1.150-151 "A Health to all Good-Fellowes" (Handout)
Rox. 1.158-159 "The Industrious Smith" (Handout)
Rox. 1.82-83 Edward Ford, "A merry discouse 'twixt him and his Joane" (Handout)
Rox. 1.354-355 [Samuel Pick?], "Robin and Kate" (1636-1641) (Handout)

from Pepys's cagtegory on Drinking:
Pepys 1.428-429r "The Drunkards Dyall" (c. 1617) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.426-427 "A pleasant new Ballads to sing both Euen and Morne, / Of the bloody murther of Sir John Baley-corne" (c. 1625) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 2.430-431 "No body loues mee" (c. 1615)
Pepys 1.432-433 "Heres to thee kind Harry. / Or / The plaine dealing Drunkard" (c. 1627) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1 440-441 Robert Guy, "It is bad Iesting with a Halter" (1632) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.442-443 Laurence Price, "Round boyes indeed. / OR / The Shoomakers Holy-day" (c. 1632) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.444-445 "A Mad Crue" (?1625) - facsimile transcription
Pepys 1.446-447 Edward Culter, "A pleasant new Song, / Of the backes complaint, for the bellies wrong: / Or farewell to good fellowship" (?1622) - facsimile transcription

Mar. 13 T
REPORTS on Reseach Papers as well as Background and Category Essays