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
2:
The Plain-Dealing Man
3:
The Vanities of Life
4:
The Life and Age of Man
5:
The Young Man's Wish
6:
The Midnight Messenger
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A Dialogue Betwix an Exciseman and Death
8:
The Messenger of Mortality
9:
England's Alarm
10:
Smoking Spiritualized
11:
The Masonic Hymn
12:
God Speed the Plow, and Bless the Corn-mow
13:
A Dialogue Between the Husbandman and the Servingman
14:
The Catholick
15:
The Three Knights
16:
The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green
17:
The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
18:
The Outlandish Knight
19:
Lord Delaware
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Lord Bateman
21:
The Golden Glove; or, the Squire of Tamworth
22:
King James I. and the Tinkler
23:
The Keach I’ the Creel
24:
The Merry Broomfield; or, the West Country Wager
25:
Sir John Barleycorn
26:
Blow the Winds, I-ho!
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The Beautiful Lady of Kent; or, the Seaman of Dover
28:
The Berkshire Lady’s Garland
29:
The Nobleman’s Generous Kindness
30:
The Drunkard’s Legacy
31:
The Bowes Tragedy
32:
The Crafty Lover; or, the Lawyer Outwitted
33:
The Death of Queen Jane
34:
The Wandering Young Gentlewoman; or, Catskin
35:
The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England’s Daughter
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The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove; or, the Old Man and his Three Sons
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Lady Alice
38:
The Felon Sewe of Rokeby and the Freeres of Richmond
