Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
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available among a musical and song-loving people such as the
English then were, and trusted to these to keep up the spirit of
loyalty in the evil days of the royal cause, to teach courage in
adversity, and cheerfulness in all circumstances, and to ridicule
the hypocrites whom they could not shame, and the tyrants whom they
could not overthrow. Though many thousands of these have been
preserved in the King's Pamphlets in the British Museum, and in
other collections which have been freely ransacked for the
materials of the following pages, as many thousands more have
undoubtedly perished. Originally printed as broadsides, and sold
for a halfpenny at country fairs, it used to be the fashion of the
peasantry to paste them up in cupboards, or on the backs of doors,
and farmers' wives, as well as servant girls and farm labourers,
who were able to read, would often paste them on the lids of their
trunks, as the best means of preserving them. This is one reason
why so many of them have been lost with
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