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A proper newe Ballad, declaring the substaunce of all the late pretended Treasons against the Queenes Maiestie, and Estates of this Realme, by sundry Traytors:

Tags: drawing and quartering, hanging, high treason, Male

A proper new Ballad, breefely declaring the Death and Execution of I4.

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A newe ballade made of Thomas Crumwel, called ‘Trolle on away’

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A newe balade made by Nicholas Balthorp which suffered in Calys the .xv. daie of marche. MDL.

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A new song on the Mannings

Tags: English, Female, hanging, Male, murder

A New made MEDLY Compos'd out of sundry SONGS,

A New BALLAD.
The Triumph of Justice.

A New Ballad of Three Merry Butchers AND Ten High-Way Men,

Tags: Female, hanging in chains, murder

A new Ballad intituled, the stout Cripple of Cornwall

Tags: hanging, Male, robbery, theft

A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing

Tags: burglary, hanging, Male, murder

A most ioyfull Songe, made in the behalfe of all her Maiesties faithfull and louing Subiects:

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A Mirror of mans lyfe made by a modest virgine Fransisca Chauesia a Nonne of the cloyster of S. Elizabeth in Spaine burned for the profession of the gospell.

Tags: burning, Female, heresy

A looking-glass for vvanton women by the example and expiation of Mary Higgs

Tags: Audio recording, bestiality, buggery with dog, English, Female

A looking-glass for traytors

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A letter to Rome, to declare to ye Pope, Iohn Felton his freend is hangd in a rope:

Tags: Audio recording, hanging, high treason, Male, quartering

A lamentable new Ballad upon the Earle of Essex his death.

Tags: beheading, Male, treason

A Lamentable Ditty made on the Death of Robert Deverux Earl of Essex,

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A few Lines Upon the awful EXECUTION of John Ormesby & Matth. Cushing, October 17th. 1734

Tags: burglary, hanging, Male

A discription of Nortons falcehod Of Yorke shyre, and of his fatall farewel.

Tags: drawing and quartering, hanging, Male, treason

A declaration of the death of Iohn Lewes,

Tags: burning, heresy, Male

A cruell murther committed lately upon the body of Abraham Gearsy

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Tags: hanging, hanging in chains, Male, murder, pressing

A Copy of Verses on the Awful Execution of Charles Christopher Robinson, For the Murder of his Sweetheart, Harriet Segar, of Ablow Street, Wolverhampton, August 26th.

Tags: English, hanging, Male, murder

A Congratulation on the happy discovery of the hellish fanatick plot

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A Cabinet of grief,

Tags: burning, English, Female, murder

A breefe balet touching the traytorous takynge of Scarborow Castell.

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Tags: beheading, high treason, Male

A ballad reioysinge the sodaine fall, of rebels that thought to deuower vs all.

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A BALLAD ON THE MURDER OF MR HAYES BY HIS WIFE

Tags: burning, Female, murder, strangling

A ballad intituled, A newe well a daye

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Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz

The literal translation of terza rima from Italian is 'third rhyme'. Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in…

Tender Hearts of London City

Russell's Farewell

Row Well Ye Marriners

Packington's Pound

Ottava Rima

Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, of eight 11-syllable lines, with a rhyme scheme of ABABABCC. It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was developed by Tuscan…

Kommt her zu mir spricht Gottes Sohn

This melody is a contrafact of the secular song Es ist nicht lang, daß es geschah (“It’s not long ago that this happened”) also known or identified as the Lindenschmied-Weise (either ‘Mr. Lindenschmied’s melody’ or ‘the tune sung by the blacksmith…

Just before the battle, Mother

Hilff Gott daß mir gelinge

Half Hannikin

Fualdès

Fortune my Foe

Es ist gewißlich an der Zeit

Der Lindenschmid

Bleeding Heart

Barzelletta

Barzelletta (lit. "jest") was a popular verse form used by frottola composers in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is generally trochaic, with eight syllables per line. The barzelletta consists of two sections: a reprisa which is…

¶A balade agaynst malycyous Sclaunderers.

Tags: Audio recording, beheading, political, treason

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