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Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

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Number of Chapters: 109

Length: 08 hours and 50 minutes

Language: English

This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern namby-pamby verse and jaunty melody, and possessing, in an historical point of view, especial value as a faithful record of the feeling, usages, and modes of life of the rural population,—had been almost wholly passed over amongst the antiquarian revivals which constitute one of the distinguishing features of the present age. While attention was successfully drawn to other forms of our early poetry, this peasant minstrelsy was scarcely touched, and might be considered unexplored ground. There was great difficulty in collecting materials which lay scattered so widely, and which could be procured in their genuine simplicity only from the people amongst whom they originated, and with whom they are as ‘familiar as household words.’ - Summary by Robert Bell

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Introduction (Devorah Allen)
The Plain-Dealing Man (Josh Kibbey)
The Vanities of Life (Nemo)
The Life and Age of Man (Nemo)
The Young Man's Wish (Devorah Allen)
The Midnight Messenger (Josh Kibbey)
A Dialogue Betwix an Exciseman and Death (Jim Gallagher)
The Messenger of Mortality (Josh Kibbey)
England's Alarm (Ellies)
Smoking Spiritualized (Stephen Harvey)
The Masonic Hymn (Ellies)
God Speed the Plow, and Bless the Corn-mow (ritalouise)
A Dialogue Between the Husbandman and the Servingman (ritalouise)
The Catholick (ritalouise)
The Three Knights (ritalouise)
The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green (ritalouise)
The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood (Alan Mapstone)
The Outlandish Knight (ritalouise)
Lord Delaware (Ellies)
Lord Bateman (Ellies)
The Golden Glove; or, the Squire of Tamworth (Chris Pyle)
King James I. and the Tinkler (Devorah Allen)
The Keach I’ the Creel (Devorah Allen)
The Merry Broomfield; or, the West Country Wager (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Sir John Barleycorn (Alan Mapstone)
Blow the Winds, I-ho! (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Beautiful Lady of Kent; or, the Seaman of Dover (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Berkshire Lady’s Garland (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Nobleman’s Generous Kindness (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Drunkard’s Legacy (Josh Kibbey)
The Bowes Tragedy (Carrie-Lorraine Sherry)
The Crafty Lover; or, the Lawyer Outwitted (ritalouise)
The Death of Queen Jane (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Wandering Young Gentlewoman; or, Catskin (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England’s Daughter (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove; or, the Old Man and his Three Sons (Stephen Harvey)
Lady Alice (Carrie-Lorraine Sherry)
The Felon Sewe of Rokeby and the Freeres of Richmond (Stephen Harvey)
Arthur O’Bradley’s Wedding (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Painful Plough (Larry Wilson)
The Useful Plow; or, the Plough’s Praise (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Farmer’s Son (Oxenhandler)
The Farmer’s Boy (Oxenhandler)
Richard of Taunton Dean; or, Dumble Dum Deary (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Wooing Song of a Yeoman of Kent’s Sonne (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Clown’s Courtship (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Harry’s Courtship (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Harvest-Home Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Harvest-Home (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Mow (Larry Wilson)
The Barley-Mow Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Barley-Mow Song (Suffolk version) (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Craven Churn-Supper Song (ritalouise)
The Rural Dance About the May-Pole (ritalouise)
The Hitchin May-Day Song (ritalouise)
The Helstone Furry-Day Song (ritalouise)
Cornish Midsummer Bonfire Song (ritalouise)
Suffolk Harvest-Home Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Haymaker’s Song (Larry Wilson)
The Sword-Dancers’ Song (Stephen Harvey)
The Sword-Dancers’ Song and Interlude (Stephen Harvey)
The Maskers’ Song (Stephen Harvey)
Gloucestershire Wassailers’ Song (Alan Mapstone)
The Mummers’ Song (Josh Kibbey)
Fragment of the Hagmena Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Greenside Wakes Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Swearing-in Song or Rhyme (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Fairlop Fair Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
As Tom was a-Walking (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Miller and his Sons (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Jack and Tom (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Joan’s Ale Was New (Lynda Marie Neilson)
George Ridler’s Oven (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Carrion Crow (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Leathern Bottel (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Farmer’s Old Wife (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Old Wichet and his Wife (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Jolly Waggoner (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Yorkshire Horse-dealer (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The King and the Countryman (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Jone o’ Greenfield’s Ramble (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Thornehagh-Moor Woods (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Lincolnshire Poacher (Larry Wilson)
Somersetshire Hunting Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Trotting Horse (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Seeds of Love (Carrie-Lorraine Sherry)
The Garden-Gate (Larry Wilson)
The New-Mown Hay (Larry Wilson)
The Praise of a Dairy (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Milk-Maid’s Life (Josh Kibbey)
The Milking-Pail (Josh Kibbey)
The Summer’s Morning (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Old Adam (Larry Wilson)
Tobacco (Ellies)
The Spanish Ladies (Ellies)
Harry the Tailor (Ellies)
Sir Arthur and Charming Mollee (Ellies)
There Was an Old Man Came Over the Lea (Ellies)
Why Should we Quarrel for Riches (Ellies)
The Merry Fellows (Ellies)
The Old Man’s Song (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Robin Hood’s Hill (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Begone Dull Care (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Full Merrily sings the Cuckoo (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Jockey to the Fair (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Long Preston Peg (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Sweet Nightingale (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Old Man and his Three Sons (Lynda Marie Neilson)
A Begging We Will Go (Lynda Marie Neilson)
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