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| Introduction | 7 |
| Poems. |
| The Plain-Dealing Man | 11 |
| The Vanities of Life | 15 |
| The Life and Age of Man | 20 |
| The Young Man’s Wish | 22 |
| The Midnight Messenger | 24 |
| A Dialogue betwixt an Exciseman and Death | 29 |
| The Messenger of Mortality | 32 |
| England’s Alarm | 36 |
| Smoking Spiritualized | 39 |
| The Masonic Hymn | 42 |
| God Speed the Plow, and Bless the Corn-mow | 44 |
| A Dialogue between the Husbandman and the Servingman | 46 |
| The Catholick | 49 |
| Ballads. |
| The Three Knights | 50 |
| The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green | 51 |
| The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood | 59 |
| The Outlandish Knight | 61 |
| Lord Delaware | 64 |
| Lord Bateman | 68 |
| The Golden Glove; or, the Squire of Tamworth | 70 |
| King James I. and the Tinkler | 72 |
| The Keach i’ the Creel | 75 |
| The Merry Broomfield; or, the West Country Wager | 77 |
| Sir John Barleycorn | 80 |
| Blow the Winds, I-ho! | 82 |
| The Beautiful Lady of Kent; or, the Seaman of Dover | 84 |
| The Berkshire Lady’s Garland | 90 |
| The Nobleman’s Generous Kindness | 98 |
| The Drunkard’s Legacy | 100 |
| The Bowes Tragedy | 106 |
| The Crafty Lover; or, the Lawyer Outwitted | 110 |
| The Death of Queen Jane | 113 |
| The Wandering Young Gentlewoman; or, Catskin | 115 |
| The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England’s Daughter | 122 |
| The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove; or, the Old Man and his Three Sons | 124 |
| Lady Alice | 127 |
| The Felon Sewe of Rokeby and the Freeres of Richmond | 127 |
| Songs. |
| Arthur O’Bradley’s Wedding | 138 |
| The Painful Plough | 143 |
| The Useful Plow; or, the Plough’s Praise | 145 |
| The Farmer’s Son | 146 |
| The Farmer’s Boy | 148 |
| Richard of Taunton Dean; or, Dumble Dum Deary | 149 |
| Wooing Song of a Yeoman of Kent’s Sonne | 153 |
| The Clown’s Courtship | 155 |
| Harry’s Courtship | 155 |
| Harvest-home Song | 156 |
| Harvest-home | 157 |
| The Mow | 158 |
| The Barley-mow Song | 159 |
| The Barley-mow Song (Suffolk version) | 162 |
| The Craven Churn-supper Song | 162 |
| The Rural Dance about the May-pole | 164 |
| The Hitchin May-day Song | 166 |
| The Helstone Furry-day Song | 167 |
| Cornish Midsummer Bonfire Song | 169 |
| Suffolk Harvest-home Song | 170 |
| The Haymaker’s Song | 171 |
| The Sword-dancers’ Song | 172 |
| The Sword-dancers’ Song and Interlude | 175 |
| The Maskers’ Song | 180 |
| Gloucestershire Wassailers’ Song | 183 |
| The Mummers’ Song | 184 |
| Fragment of the Hagmena Song | 186 |
| The Greenside Wakes Song | 187 |
| The Swearing-in Song or Rhyme | 188 |
| Fairlop Fair Song | 191 |
| As Tom was a-Walking | 193 |
| The Miller and his Sons | 194 |
| Jack and Tom | 195 |
| Joan’s Ale was New | 197 |
| George Ridler’s Oven | 199 |
| The Carrion Crow | 202 |
| The Leathern Bottel | 203 |
| The Farmer’s Old Wife | 204 |
| Old Wichet and his Wife | 206 |
| The Jolly Waggoner | 208 |
| The Yorkshire Horse-dealer | 209 |
| The King and the Countryman | 210 |
| Jone o’ Greenfield’s Ramble | 212 |
| Thornehagh-moor Woods | 214 |
| The Lincolnshire Poacher | 216 |
| Somersetshire Hunting Song | 217 |
| The Trotting Horse | 218 |
| The Seeds of Love | 220 |
| The Garden-gate | 221 |
| The New-mown Hay | 223 |
| The Praise of a Dairy | 224 |
| The Milk-maid’s Life | 226 |
| The Milking-pail | 228 |
| The Summer’s Morning | 229 |
| Old Adam | 231 |
| Tobacco | 232 |
| The Spanish Ladies | 234 |
| Harry the Tailor | 235 |
| Sir Arthur and Charming Mollee | 236 |
| There was an Old Man came over the Lea | 237 |
| Why Should we Quarrel for Riches | 238 |
| The Merry Fellows | 239 |
| The Old Man’s Song | 240 |
| Robin Hood’s Hill | 241 |
| Begone Dull Care | 243 |
| Full Merrily sings the Cuckoo | 244 |
| Jockey to the Fair | 245 |
| Long Preston Peg | 247 |
| The Sweet Nightingale | 247 |
| The Old Man and his Three Sons | 250 |
| A Begging we will go | 251 |
