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- A Ballad of Tobias. : To a pleasant tune
- A bloody battle between a taylor and a louse
- A choice pennyworth of wit
- A dialogue betvven his grace the Duke of Argyle, and the Earl of Mar or an excellent new song, to the tune of the Hare merchants rant, &c
- A dialogue between Jack and his mother, &c : Tune of, Old woman poor and blind
- A famous sea fight. Between Capt, Ward, and his Majesty's ship the Rainbow : Tune of, 'Tis when the seas were roaring, &c
- A famous sea-fight, between Captain Ward and the Rainbow
- A favourite love song
- A genuine copy of two excellent court ballads dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole : Admiral Vernon's resolution. Tune -- Pritty Polly, says. Argyle's advice to Sir R----t W--p--e. Tune -- The king and the miller
- A godly ballad, intituled, I will go seek my Saviour; and let the world be : Tune of, We'll all pluck the heather, &c
- A hymn to the victory in Scotland
- A lamentable ballad of little Musgrove and the Lady Barnet
- A lamentable ballad of the lady's fall : To the tune of, In peascod time, &c
- A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamoor, their servant. The like of which cruelty and murder was never before heard of. To the tune of the Lady's fall
- A new Christmas carol. With divine poems
- A new and old medley
- A new ballad : To the tune of, Packington's pound
- A new ballad : to the tune of The black-smith
- A new ballad of St. George and the dragon
- A new fox-hunting song
- A new hunting song : made on a fox chase
- A new song
- A new song
- A new song
- A new song
- A new song : occasioned by the memorable victory obtained by Admiral Nelson over the French fleet, near the mouth of the Nile, on the first of August, 1798
- A new song call'd The churlish husband
- A new song call'd curling of the hair
- A new song call'd hark to Winchester, or, the Yorkshire volunteers farewell to the good folks of Stockton : Tune, Push about the jorum
- A new song call'd the farmer's son : to which is added, Alice Marley. The distracted maiden's love to the farmer's son, to the tune of, Attend you boatmen and give ear
- A new song entituled, the warming-pan
- A new song in praise of Captain Batty
- A new song in praise of the Durham militia : To the tune of the Lillies of France
- A new song to the tune of, Peggie I must love thee
- A new song, concerning two games at cards : play'd betwixt the King of England, King of France, and Queen of Spain; shewing the true honour and honesty of Old England against the pretender. To a good tune
- A new song, on Parker, a delegate, and head of the mutiny at Sheerness : Tune - The hardy tar
- A new song, or the gamblers fitted
- A new song, sung in the play of the king and the miller of Mansfield
- A new song. Call'd the Duke of Cumberland's victory over the Scotch rebels at Cullodon-Moor, near Inverness
- A new summons to Horn-Fair : to appear at Cuckold's Point on the 18th of October, and from thence to march to the gravel-pits, to dig gravel, to make a path for your wives to walk on to the fair. To the tune of The city woman
- A new touch of the times. A song
- A pleasant and renowned song of Sir Guy, Earl of Warwick : shewing the valiant deeds atchiev'd by that noble knight: also how he liv'd in a cave as a hermit, and of his sickness and death. Tune of, Was ever man, &c
- A pleasant new ballad of Tobias : wherein is shewed what wonderful things happen'd to him in his youth; and how he wedded young damsel that had seven husbands, but never enjoyed their company, being all slain by an evil spirit
- A pleasant new ballad to sing ev'ning and morn, of the bloody murder of Sir John Barleycorn : To the tune of, Shall I lye beyond thee
- A pretty ballad of the Lord of Lorn, and the false steward : The tune is, Green sleeves
- A remarkable and memorable song of Sir Robert Bewick and the Laird Graham : giving an account of Laird Graham's meeting with Sir Robert Bewick in the town of Carlisle and they going to a tavern, a dispute happened betwixt them, which of their sons was the best man. How Graham rode home in a passion, and caused his son to fight young Bewick, which proved their deaths
- A serious copy of verses on the late Miss Wray
- A song in praise of our forces
- A song in praise of the leather bottle
- A song, on the constituting, and revival, of the Lodge 296, at Wakefield
- A sorrowful lamentation and last farewell of all the prisoners to be executed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next : with an account of the places where the unhappy people are to suffer
- A tragical ballad on the unfortunate love of Ld Thomas and fair Eleanor: together with the downfal of the Brown girl : To a pleasant tune, call'd Lord Thomas, &c
- A trip to France, or, the ærial voyage : A new song. To its own tune
- A true and tragical song, concerning Captain John Bolton, of Bulmer, near Castle-Howard : who after a trial of nine hours, at York-Castle, on Monday the 27th of March, 1775, for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Rainbow, an Ackworth girl, his apprentice; was found guilty, and immediately received sentence to be executed at [T]yburn near York on Wednesday following, but on the same morning he strangled himself in the cell where he was confined, and so put a period to his wicked and desperate life. His body was then pursuant to his sentence, given to the surgeons at York infirmary to be dissected and anatomized. To the tune of "Fair lady lay your costly robes aside"
- A true character of sundry trades and callings. Or, A new ditty of innocent mirth
- A true relation of the death of Sir Andrew Barton : a pyrate and rover
- A true relation of the life and death of Sir Andrew Barton : a pyrate and rover on the seas. Tune, Come follow my love, &c
- A true relation of the life and death of Sir Andrew Barton, a pyrate and rover on the seas : Tune, Come follow my love, &c
- A wonderful prophecy. Declared by Christian James, a maid of twenty years of age : late daughter to Daniel James who was born and bred near the town which is called Padstow, in the country of Cornwel, who departed this life upon the 8th of March. With a true relation of her behaviour, both in her life-time, and at the hour of her death, worthy to be had in perpetual memory. To the tune of, In summer time, &
- Admiral Matthews engagement against the combin'd fleet of France and Spain
- Admiral Rodney's triumph, or, The French fleet defeated
- Advice to a poet : Designiug to write on the Duke of Marlborough's return to England. In imitation of Waller
- Advice to the Tori[es] : a ballad.
- Advice to the Tories : a ballad.
- Albertus the second: or, The curious justice
- Amintor's lamentation for Celea's unkindness : Both sexes from this song may learn, of what they should beware: how in extreams they may discern, unkindness and despair. To a new tune
- An elegy on the much to be lamented death of that worthy and reverend divine Mr John Thompson : Minister of the Gospel in Stockton, who died on the 23d of February 1753, in the 50th year of his age, much lamented by all that knew him
- An excellant new song lately composed, intituled, The pearl of the Irish nation : To its own proper tune
- An excellent ballad of George Barnwell : an apprentice in the city of London, who was undone by a strumpet, who caused him thrice to rob his master, and to murder his uncle in Ludlow, &c. To the tune of, The merchant, &c
- An excellent ballad of King John and the abbot of Canterbury : To the tune of, The king and lord abbot
- An excellent ballad of St. George and the dragon
- An excellent ballad of St. George for England : and the King of Egypt's only daughter, whom he delivered from death: and how he slew a monstrous dragon
- An excellent ballad of that most dreadful combate : fought between Moore of Moore-hall, and the dragon of Wantley. To a pleasant tune much in request. Licens'd and enter'd according to order
- An excellent ballad of the Lord Mohun and Duke Hamilton : With an exact account of their melancholy deaths
- An excellent ballad, of a most dreadful combate fought between Moore of Moore-hall, and the dragon of Wantley
- An excellent ballad, of the noble marquis and patient Grissel : To the tune of, The bride's good morrow
- An excellent new badlad
- An excellent new ballad, entituled, Mar's lament for his rebellion : To the tune of, Now comes on the glorious year
- An excellent new ballad, intitled, The cripple of Cornwall : Wherein is shew'n his dissolate life and deserved death. To the tune of, The blind begger
- An excellent new ballad, intituled The new way of the turncoat : To the tune of, John Anderson my Joe
- An excellent new copy of verses, being The sorrowful lamentation of Mrs. Cooke : for the loss of her husband Thomas Cooke, the famous butcher of Gloucester, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 11th of August 1703. To the tune of, Forgive me if your looks I thought
- An excellent new song entitled Captain Glen
- An excellent new song entituled Bouuy [sic] Jean of Aberdeen
- An excellent new song, called, An end to our sorrows : To the tune of, I laugh at the Pope's devises
- An excellent new sonnet on the goddess Diana and Acteon : shewing, how the goddess Diana transformed Acteon into the shape of a hart. To an excellent north country tune
- An excellent old ballad, entitled, The wandering Prince of Troy
- An excellent sonnet of the two unfortunate lovers Hero and Leander : giving an account how Leander fell in love with the famous Hero; but being disappointed by her cruel father, who confined her in a tower, Leander resolving to swim over the Hellespont to fetch her away, a mighty storm arose, and he was drowned near her window; for sorrow of which, she leaped into the sea to him. To the tune of, Gerherd's mistress
- An excellet [sic] new ballad, entituled, The gallant Grahams of Scotland : Tune of, I will away, and I will not tarry, &c
- An hundred godly lessons : which a mother on her death-bed gave to her children, whereby they may know how to guide themselve[s] towards God and man, to the benefit of the common-wealth, to the joy of ther parents, and to the good of themselves. Tune of, Flying fame
- An old ballad of Whittington and his cat : Who from a poor boy, came to be thrice Lord-Mayor of London
- An unhappy memorable song of the hunting on Chevy Chace : between the Earl Piercy of England and Earl Douglas of Scotiand. To the tune, of Flying fame
- As I through Gracious street did pass ...
- Barbara Allen's cruelty; or, the young man's tragedy
- Bedlam schoolman. Or, Some lines made by an English noble man, that was in Bedlam : To its own proper tune. Holow my fancie, whither wilt thou go?
- Blue eyed Mary
- Captain Hind's progress and ramble : Tune of Robin Hood revived
- Captain Johnson's last farewel to the world : who was executed at Tyburn, near London for being concened [sic] in stealing an heirres [sic]. To the tune of, Russel's farewel; or, Monmonth's [sic] lament
- Captain Tom's ballad: or, Captain Tom's lamentation : for his mob's tribulation, who lost reputation, all over the nation. A pleasant new song, to the tune of, Packington's Pound
- Christ compared to an apple-tree. For a minister before preaching
- Christ's kirk on the green : in two canto's
- Christ's love : To penitent sinners. Shewing how he shed his blood seven times for our sins
- Cock-lane, humbug
- Constance and Anthony: or, an admirable northern story : Of two constant lovers, as I understand, were born near Appleby in Westmoreland; the lad's name Anthony, Constance the lass, to sea they went both, and great dangers did pass: how they suffer'd shipwreck on the coast of Spain, for two years divided, and then met again, by wonderful fortune, and care accident, and now both live at home with joy and content. The tune, I would thou wert in Shrewsbury
- Crafty Kate of Colchester; or, the false-hearted clothier frighted into good manners : Tune of, The languishing lover
- Cromlet's lilt : to be sung with its own proper tune
- Cupid's courtesy: or, the young gallant foil'd at his own weapon : He scorned Cupid and his dart, - until he found a wounded heart to a pleasant new northern tune
- Devil outwitted by a woman
- Dialogue between Captain Tom and Sir H--y D--n C--t
- England's new bell-man : ringing into all people's ears God's dreadful judgment on this land and kingdom. Tune of, O man in desperation, &c
- Fair Margaret's misfortunes; or, sweet William's dream on his wedding night : with the sudden death and burial of those noble lovers
- Fair Maudlin, the merchant's daughter of Bristol
- Fatal love or, the young maiden's tragedy : being a sad and dismal relation, of one Mary Low, late cook maid to esq; Fansaw in St. James's Park, who drowned her self in Rosamonds pond, on Wednesday night last, for the love of a young man who was her fellow servant. To the tune of, Johnson's Farwel. Licenced according to order
- Flora's farewell; or, the passionate shepherd's love-song : Wherein he greatly doth complain, because his love was spent in vain. To the tune of, A thousand times my love commend
- G. Wilson, humbly, as before, resumes his thankfulness once more, ...
- General Fielding's answer to the Dutchess of C----'s memorial : To the tune of, The dame of honour
- I would I were where Helen lyes, to its own proper tune
- Ileen oge
- In and out and turn about : A new c----t-dance. To the tune of John Bob'd in, and John Bob'd out: or, Bob in Joan: or, The Miller of Mansfield
- J------n B-------s's ballad continued
- Jack Tar's return,
- Jockeys escape from bonny Dundee : To it's own proper tune
- John Davidson, merchant, at Newbigging, near Drumlithie, sells the following goods at the lowest prices : My customers all of different ranks, to you I do return my thanks, for all your former favours granted, a grateful sense I never wanted. That you may be the better sorted, I've bought my goods the last imported: and what I sell, that you may know, is noted in the bill below
- Johnny Armstrong's last goodnight : declaring how he and his eight-score men, fought a bloody battle with the Scottish king at Edingburgh. [sic]
- Keppel for ever!
- King Charles the second's Restoration : Tune, The Duke of Ormond
- King Charles the second's Restoration : tune, Where have you been my lovely sailor bold
- King Edward the fourth and the tanner of Tamworth
- King Henry V. his conquest of France : in revenge for the affront offered by the French king; in sending him (instead of the tribute) a ton of tennis-balls
- King Lear and his three daughters
- Libertatis amator : a litany
- Lord Birkin's lamentation : To the tune of, Fy gar rub her, &c
- Lord Henry and fair Katherine; or, the secret discovered too late
- Love is the cause of my mourning. Or, the despairing lover. Sung with its own proper tune
- Love's chronicle: or, the changing heart
- Lucky Spence's last advice : I. Three times the Caroline grain'd and rifted, then from the cod her pow she lifted, in bawdy policy well gifted, whan now she sawn that death na langer wad be shifted, she thus began
- Maudlin : the merchant's daughter of Bristol. To the tune of, The maiden's joy, &c
- Maudlin, the merchant's daughter of Bristol : There is one passage in this song much carp'd at, and that is the time Maudlin's lover lay under condemnation, but you may remark that people lie many years in the inquisition prisons. But there is another objection I cannot so readily answer which is the mercy shewn by the judges, since we have not another instance extant
- Merry and wise
- Mocking is catching, or, A pastoral lamentation for the loss of a man and no man : In the simple stile.
- My dog and I : we write no frights on Dutch or French, no cousters of a handsome wench, no monstrous wonders in the air, no persons dying in dispair, nor any thing under the sky, but only my dog and I. Tune is, My dog and I; or, Bobbing Jone
- Neptune's raging fury; or, the gallant seaman's sufferings
- Newgate's garland : being a new ballad, shewing how Mr. Jonathan Wild's throat was cut, from ear to ear, with a penknife by Mr. Blake, alias Blueskin, the bold highwayman, as he stood at his trial at the Old-Bailey. To the tune of, The cut-purse
- Paradise lost, and paradise regain'd : by the wonderful works of God. Shewing, how his heavenly majesty was graciously pleased to create heaven and earth: ..
- Paul Jones, a new song
- Poor Robin's dream: commonly called poor charity : Tune The new pack of cards
- Princely diversion, or the jovial hunting match,
- Queen Eleanor's confession : shewing how King Henry, with the Earl Martial, in friars habits came to her, instead of two friars from France, which she sent for. To a pleasant new tune
- Queen Eleanor's confession : shewing, how King Henry, with the Earl Martial, in fryars habits, came to see her, instead of two fryars from France, which she sent for. To a pleasant new tune
- Queen Elizabeth's champion; or, Great-Britain's glory : Being a victory obtained by the young Earl of Essex, over the old Emperor of Germany, by a fight at sea, in which he took the Emperor's son, and brought him a prisoner to Queen Elizabeth
- Queen Elizabeth's day: or, the down-fall of the Devil, Pope and Pretender : To the tune of Bonny Dun-dee
- Ralph and Nell's ramble to Oxford
- Renowned Robin Hood: or, his archery truly related : in his exploits before Queen Catherine
- Robin Hood and Little John : being an account of their first meeting, and fierce encounter. Likewise their friendly agreement, and how he came to be call'd Little John
- Robin Hood and the shepherd : shewing how Robin Hood, Little John and the shepherd fought a sore combat. Tune - Robin Hood and Queen Catherine
- Robin Hood newly reviv'd: or, His meeting and fighting with his cousin Scarlet : To a new tune
- Robin Hood's golden prize : shewing how he robed [sic] two priests of five hundred pounds. Tune - Robin Hood was a tall young man, &c
- Robin Hood, Will Scarlet, and Little John: or, a narrative of the victory obtain'd against the Prince of Arragon and the two giants : and how Will Scarlet married the princess. Tune of, Robin Hood
- Robin Hoods chace, or, a merry progress between Robin Hood and King Henry : Tune - Robin Hood and the beggar
- Roger of the Vale
- Roger's delight; or, the west country christ'ning and gossiping
- Roman charity : A worthy example of a virtuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk. He being commanded by the emperor to be starved to death, but afterwards pardoned
- Rutland's bounty: or, Baslow bells
- Simple Simon's misfortunes : and his wife Margery's cruelty; who poisoned him with a bottle of sack. Tune - Delights of the bottle
- Sir Billy Tinsel : An excellent new ballad, to the tune of The abbot of Canterbury
- Sir Hugh in the Grimes downfall. Or A new song made on Sir Hugh in the Grime, who was hang'd for stealing the Bishops mare
- Sir Humphrey Mackworth's real vindication, or, The true university answer to the pretended university ballad
- Song for His Majesty's birth-day
- Songs and toasts : Tally high ho
- St Berrnad's [sic] vision; or, a brief discourse between the soul and the body of a wicked man lately deceased, blaming each other : With a speech from the devil in Hell. To the tune of, Flying fame, &c
- Sweet William of Plymouth
- Tale of a tarr : A new ballad
- The Barnard-Castle tragedy : shewing how one John Atkinson of Murton near Appleby, servant to Thomas Howson, Miller, at Barnard-Castle Bridge End, courted the said Howson's sister; and after he had gain'd her entire affection by his wheedling solicitations, left her disconsolate, and made courtship to another, whom he married by the treacherous advice of one Thomas Skelton, who to save the priest's fees, &c. perform'd the ceremony himself; and upon her hearing the news, broke her heart, and bled to death on the spot, this being both true and tragical, 'tis hop'd 'twill be a warning to all lovers. Tune of Constant Anthony
- The Beau's receipt for a lady's dress
- The Berkshire tragedy, or the Wittam miller : with an account of his murdering his sweetheart
- The Bristol bridegroom; or the ship-carpenter's love to the merchant's daughter
- The Durham garland : In four parts
- The French prophet. Or, a new touch of the times
- The Geneva ballad : To the tune of 48
- The Gloucestershire tragedy. Or, The unnatural mother
- The Gosport tragedy: or, the perjured ship-carpenter : Tune, Peggy's gone over sea
- The Guernsey garland
- The Kentish garland
- The King and northern man : Shewing how a poor Northumberland man, tenant to the King, was wrong'd by a lawyer; how the poor man went to the King and made known his grievance
- The King and northern man : shewing how a poor Northumberland man (tenant to the King) being wronged by a lawyer (his neighbour) went to the King himself to make known his grievance. To the tune of, Slut, &c. Licens'd and enter'd
- The Lady Isabella's tragedy: or, The step-mother's cruelty : being a relation of a lamentable and cruel murther committed on the body of the Lady Isabella, the only daughter of a noble duke, occasion'd by her step-mother, and acted by the master-cook, who were both adjudg'd to suffer death for the said murther. To the tune of, The lady's Fall, &c
- The Lady Isabella's tragedy; or, the step-mother's cruelty : Being, a relation of a murder committed on the body of a young lady, the only daughter of a duke, occasion'd by her step-mother, and acted by the cook. Together with their confessions and lamentations. Tune of, The Lady's fall, &c
- The Leeds tragedy: or, The bloody brother
- The Lord's lamentation; or the Whittington defeat
- The Newcastle beauties : Designed to be sung to the harpsicord or sptnet [sic], &c
- The Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament : who on his death bed, committed the keeping of his two children, (a boy and a girl) to his own brother, who did most wickedly cause them to be destroyed, that so he might possess himself of the children's estate, but by the just judgment of God, the murder was found out, himself, and all that he had were destroyed from off the face of the earth. To an excellent new tune call'd, Rogero: &c
- The Northamptonshire tragedy : In three parts
- The Oxfordshire tragedy: or, the virgin's advice
- The Perkinite Jacks: or, A new ballad on the Tackers
- The Plymouth tragedy: or, fair Susan's overthrow
- The Protestants satisfaction : The joy and glory of Hampton Court on the birth of a young prince born of her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark, on the 24th of this instant Julie to the universal joy of the whole kingdom. To the tune of The Protestant boies shall carrie the daie. Licensed and entered according to order
- The Somersetshire tragedy: or, the wronged lady's lamentation, and untimely death
- The South Sea ballad : set by a lady
- The Spanish lady's love to an English captain
- The St. Giles's frolick, or a smith's ramble for new adventures
- The Staffordshire maid
- The Strand garland : In four parts
- The Suffolk miracle : being the relation of a young man, who after his death appeared to his sweetheart, and carried her behind him forty miles in two hour's time, and was never seen after, but in the grave. Tune of, My bleeding heart, &c
- The Turkey factor
- The Whitehaven garters : A ballad
- The Yarmouth tragedy; or, the constant lovers
- The age of wonders : To the tune of Chivy Chase
- The baffled knight: or, the lady's policy
- The beggars chorus; or The jovial crew : To an excellent new play-house tune
- The beggars chorus; or, the jovial crew : To an excellent new play-house tune
- The bloody gardener's cruelty; or, the shepherd's daughter betray'd
- The bonny Scot: or, The yielding lass : To an excellent new tune. This may be printed, R.P
- The breath of life : Being an account of a young man that went to sea, thinking it a pleasant life; but soon found his mistake. Prettily expressed in sea terms
- The bride's burial : To the tune of The lady's fall, &c
- The bride's burial : Tune of The lady's fall
- The broken contract, or, the betray'd virgin's complaint
- The careful wife's good counsel : and the husband's firm resolution to reform his course of life, in order to lay up something against a rainy-day, to the tune of, The spinning-wheel, &c
- The children in the wood: or, the Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament
- The christning of Joey
- The clan's lamentation, against Mar and their own folly : To the tune of, Bony Katharine Ogie
- The coalition ballad : As sung at the Shakespeare
- The coaly Tyne : a new song, tune, Maid of the mill
- The colliers rant
- The complaining maid
- The cook-maid's garland: or, the out-of-the-way devil : Shewing, how four highwaymen were bit by an ingenious cook-maid
- The cooper of Norfolk, or, a jest of a brewer and a cooper's wife
- The country girl's policy; or, the cockney outwitted
- The countryman's garland : in two parts. To a merry new tune
- The covetous old mother; or, the terrible overthrow of two loyal lovers : You that these woful tidings hear, can you forbear to shed a tear, surely your tender hearts must bleed, when you these moving lines do read. To the tune of, Oh! so uugrateful creature, &c
- The cries of London : Tune, The merry Christ-Church bells
- The cruel cooper of Ratcliff : in three parts
- The cruel knight, and the fortunate farmer's daughter
- The cruisers, a new song : Adapted to the times
- The dead man's song: whose dwelling was near Basing-Hall Street, in London : Tune of, Flying Fame
- The disconsolate nymph
- The disobedient so[n] and cruel husband : Being a full and true account of one Mr John Jones, a gentleman's son in Wiltshire, whose father left him an estate of twelve hundred pounds ... married a lady of a great fortune in the same place, but being reduced to poverty and want with riotous living, he killed his wife [and children, and] afterwards hanged his mother on a tree in the orchard. With the last dying words of this wretch, who was hanged before his mother's [door, July 30 last]
- The diversions of Denby's * : A ballad, writ in 1743
- The dream of Judas' mother fulfilled : Together with his sinful life and deserved destruction. To the tune of - Christ is my love
- The duel : A ballad. Tune of, King John and the Abbot
- The fair maid of the west : who sold her maidenhead for a high-crown'd hat
- The false knight outwitted a new song
- The famous flower of serving-men; or, the lady turned serving-man
- The fantastical prodigal
- The farmers lamentation for the loss of Colly his cow. A new song
- The forlorn lover : declaring, how a lass gave her lover three slips for a teaster, and married another a week before Easter. To a pleasant new tune
- The frantick mother: or, Cupid in captivity : To an excellent new tune. Licensed according to order
- The friar well-fitted. Or, a pretty jest that once befell, how a maid put a friar to cool in a well
- The frolicksome spark : A new song
- The garland of trials
- The gelding of the devil : The prettiest jest that ever was known, the baker's wife her skill has shown; then listen awhile, and the news I'll tell betwixt a baker and the devil of Hell
- The gelding of the devil: or, The prittiest jest that e're was known, How the baker's wife her skill hath shown : then listen a while, and I the news will tell betwixt the baker and the devil of Hell. Tune, Gelding the devil, &c. or, The card players, &c. Licens'd and enter'd
- The gentle craft's complaint: or, the jolly shoe-makers humble petition to the Queen and Parliament : with their great hopes of the advancement of each leather trade. Tune of, Now, now comes on the glorious year
- The great messenger of mortality; or, a dialogue betwixt Death and a beautiful lady : From whence it appears that death is no respecter of persons either for birth or beauty; so that as sure as we are born, we shall certainly die: therefore let us prepare ourselves against that hour and time, that he may appear as a welcome messenger, that brings glad tidings. Tune of, Farewel my heart's delight
- The great tribunal; or Christ's glorious appearing in judgment : Being, a contemplative description or resurrection
- The gypsie loddy
- The happy pair : A new song, sung by Mr. Abell
- The happy pair : A song sung by Mr. Abe[ll]
- The honour of a London 'prentice : being an account of his matchless manhood and brave adventures done in Turkey
- The horrid murther committed by Captain Green and his crue, on Captain Drummond and his whole men : under design of friendship by cutting off their heads, and tying them back to back, and throwing them into the sea, and sold their ship unto the Indians
- The hubble bubble : To the tune of O'er the hills and far away
- The humours of rag-fair: or, The countryman's description of their several trades and callings
- The hunting of the hare : with her last will and testament. As it was perform'd on Banstead Downs. By coney-catchers and their hounds. To a most pleasant and delightful tune
- The infallible Mountebank, or Quack doctor
- The jolly gentleman's frolick; or, the city ramble : Being an account of a gentleman who wager'd to pass by the watch, and give no answer, but was stop'd by a constable, and sent to the counter, and next day clear'd before my Lord Mayor, by the intercession of his daughter
- The kind virgins complaint against a young man's unkindness : Of young man's falshood she doth complain, resolving never to love man again; experience tells her men love but for fashion, that makes her rail against them in such a passion. To the tune of, Cupid's courtesy, &c
- The lamentable and tragical history of Titus Andronicus : with the fall of his sons in the wars of the Goths, with the manner of the ravishment of this daughter Lavinia, by the empress's two sons, through the means of a bloody moor, taken by the sword of Titus, in the war: with his revenge upon their cruel and inhumane act. To the tune of, Fortune my foe, &c
- The lamentation of Mr. Page's wife of Plymouth
- The lamentation of Mr. Page's wife of Plymouth : who being forced to wed him, consented to his murder, for the love of Mr. George Strangwidge, for which they suffer'd death at Barnstaple in Devonshire. To the tune of, Fortune my foe, &c
- The lamenting lady's farewel to the world : Who being in a strange exile, bewails her own misery, complains upon fortune and destiny, describes the manner of her breeding, deplores the loss of her parents, wishing peace and happiness to England, which was her native country: and withall, resolved for death cheerfully, commended her soul to heaven, and her body to the earth, and quietly departed this life, anno 1650. To an excellent new tune, called, Oh hone, o hone
- The lamenting lady's farewel to the world : who being in strange exile, bewails her own misery, complains upon fortune and destiny, describes the manner of her breeding, deplores the loss of her parents, wishing peace and happiness to England, which was her native country. And withal, resolved for death, cheerfully commended her soul to heaven and her body to the earth; quietly departed this life, anno 1650. To an excellent tune, called, Oh hone, o hone
- The languishing husband
- The lass of Ocram
- The lass of the hill
- The life and death of Sir Hugh-in-the-Grime
- The life and death of fair Rosamond : King Henry the Second's concubine
- The life and death of the Duke of Berwick
- The life and death of the famous Thomas Stukely : an English gallant in the time of Queen Elizabeth, who ended his life in a battle of three kings of Barbary. Tune of, King Henry's going to Bulogne
- The life and death of the famous Thomas Stukely : an English gallant in time of Queen Elizabeth, who ended his life in a battel [o]f three kings of Barbary. Tune is, King Henry's going to Bulloign, &c
- The life and death of the famous Thomas Stukely : an English gentleman in the time of Queen Elizabeth, who was kill'd in the battle of the Three Kings of Barbary
- The life and death of the famous Thomas Stukely : an English gentleman, in the time of Queen Elizabeth; who ended his life in the battle of the three kings of Barbary
- The love-sick maid
- The loving girl's invitation to a young sailor, in his trowsers
- The low-country soldier: or, His humble petition at his return into England, after his bold adventures in bloody battles
- The loyal Britain: or, George for ever
- The loyal swain: or, The happy pair
- The maidens desire
- The meditation : a cantata sung by Mrs. Margarita, and Mrs. Barbier, in the tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey.
- The merchant's son, and the beggar-wench of Hull
- The merchant, a-la-mode : To the tune of Which no body can deny
- The merites of piracie or, A new song on Captain Green and his bloody crue: : to the tune of, My virgins treasure
- The merry cuckold and kind wife
- The messenger defeated: or, The lawyer's escape : A new ballad. To the tune of, Hey boys up go we
- The miller of Essex : a new song, To the tune of, The miller of Mansfield
- The miller's advice to his three sons, in taking of toll
- The mournful lady's garland : In three parts
- The new Irish Christmass box or, The female dear Joy trick'd ont [sic] of her maiden head : To an excellent new Teagueland tune
- The new ballads sung by Mr. Lowe & Miss Stevenson at Vaux Hall set by Mr. Worgan book the 6th. 1757
- The new court : being an excellent new song to an old tune, of To all you ladies now at land, &c.
- The new loyal health : To the tune of The tackers
- The new way of love is the cause of my mourning : to its own proper tune
- The noble fisherman: or, Robin Hood's preferment : Tune of, In summer time
- The noble lord's cruelty; or, a pattern of true love : A pattern of true love to you I will recite, between a beautiful lady and a courteous knight
- The nobleman's generous kindness: or, the poor country man's unexpected happiness : Giving an account of a nobleman, who taking notice of a poor man's industrious care and pains for the maintaining of his charge of seven small children, met him upon a day, and discoursing with him, invited him and his wife, with his children, home to his house, and bestowed upon them a farm of thirty acres of land, to be continued to him and his heirs for ever. To the tune of, The two English traveller [sic]
- The parents pious gift; or a choice present for children : Set forth in a dialogue between a religious father and an extravagant son. Containing a dispute about bad company, or evil communication, pride, drunkenness, riotous living, and all the vanities of a vicious course of life: for which the young man earnestly contended, till by the grace of God, and the endeavours of his religious father, he was brought from the danger of death and destruction to the hope of life and immortality. Concluding with the young man's Christian courage and conquest over the tempter, who came to disturb him in his private closet when in tears and repenting: it being an excellent pattern for all young persons to set before them in these present sinfull times
- The poor man's counsellor; or, The married man's guide : If God hath blest thee with a careful wife, take my directions how to lead thy life; tho' riches thou dost want, yet thou shalt find, far greater wealth in a contented mind: thy honest labour shall thy charge maintain, being truly got, not by unlawful gain. To the tune of, The poor man's comfort, &c
- The princely lovers garland
- The proud pedlar
- The rare show
- The rarest ballad that ever was seen, of The blind begger's daughter of Bednal-Green
- The rarest old ballad that ever was seen : of the blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal-Green
- The reformer of England : A new song. Tune - The roast beef of Old England
- The sailors garland: or The ticket buyers lamentation : To the tune of Chevy Chase
- The squire turn'd ferret : An excellent new ballad. To the tune of Hey boys! up go we; Chevey Chase, or what you please
- The storm, or the, dangers of the sea
- The stormy judgments or, The tempestuous wind : VVith an account of the great damage done by the high vvinds, both by sea and land; on Friday night and Saturday morning, being November the 26th. 1703. Tune of, Our Saviours birth, licensed according to order
- The story of sinful Sally, told by herself : Shewing how from being Sally of the Green she was first led to become Sinful Sally, and afterwards Drunken Sal, and how at last she came to a most melancholy and almost hopeless end; being therein a warning to all young women both in town and country
- The tars' frolic. Or British sailor
- The thanksgiving: a new Protestant ballad : To an excellent Italian tune
- The toasts : A new ballad. Tune, To all you ladies now at land
- The tombs in Westminster Abbey : as sung by Brother Popplewell in the manner of chanting in a cathedral
- The toothless bride: or, The wonton old woman : being a pleasant and comical relation of a wealthy old woman: ... To the tune of, The old woman poor and blind
- The unfortunate concubine or, Rosamond's overthrow : Occasioned by her brother's praising her beauty to two young knights of Salisbury, as they rid along the road
- The unhappy lady of Hackney : To an excellent new tune
- The unhappy memorable song of the hunting of Chevy-Chase
- The unhappy voyage : Giving an account of the Royal Anne Galley, Captain Willis Commander, which was split to pieces on the Stag Rocks on the Lizzard the 10th of November, 1721. having on board the Lord Belhaven, who was going as governor to Barbadoes, with several other persons of distinction, the whole number on board being 210, out of which there were only three saved; whose names are Gearge Hain, William Godfrey, and Thomas Laurence, a boy. To the tune of, Womens work is never done. &ck
- The vicar and Moses : a new song
- The vicar of Bray
- The wandering Jew's chronicle. Or, a brief history of the remarkable passages from William the Conqueror to this present reign
- The wandering Jew's chronicle; or, a brief history of the remarkable passages from William the Conqueror; to this present reign : To the tune of, The wandering Jew's chronicle
- The wandering Jew: or, the shoemaker of Jerusalem : Who lived when our lord and saviour Jesus Christ was crucified, and by him appointed to live till his coming again
- The wandering young gentlewoman; or, Catskin
- The wanton wife of Bath
- The wanton wife of Bath : Tune of, The flying fame, &c
- The weaver and chambermaid
- The whistling-plowman : a new hunting song
- The widow Parker's sorrowful lamentation
- The wife's resolution to find her husband full employment
- The woeful lamentation of Jane Shore
- The woody choristers; or; The birds harmony : In two parts. When birds could speak, and women they had neither good or bad to say; the pretty birds then fill'd with pain, did to each other thus complain
- Three excellent new songs : I. Had awa' frae me, Donald. II. The Surprize. III. Whistle Oe'r the lave o't
- Thro' the wood laddy : To a new Scots tune
- To Robert Earl of Oxford, late Lord Treasurer, on his excess of mirth, at the proclaming of His Majesty King George : To the tune of, Ye Commons and Peers.
- To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. The humble address of the company of His Majesty's ship Orford
- True love requited; or, the bailiff's daughter of Islington : The young man's friends the maid did scorn, 'cause she was poor and left forlorn, they sent the squire to London fair, to be apprentice seven years: and when he out of his time did come, he met his love a going home, and then to end all further strife, he took the maid to be his wife
- True love rewarded with loyalty; or, mirth and joy after sorrow and sadness : This young man did walk in pensive manner, being a soldier under cupid's banner; in loving terms he did express his mind, still fearing that his love would prove unkind: but she to ease him from all future pain, did chear his heart, and grant him love again. To a new West-country tune, called, O hark my love; or, Flora farewel
- Two excellent new songs : I. A new love song. II. Newcastle ale, tune Lillabolero
- Two excellent new songs. The rakes of stony batter
- Two new ballads : The L-ds address to K. G. II
- Vernon's glory: or, the Spaniards defeat : Being an account of the taking of Carthagena by Vice-Admiral Vernon, Rear-Admiral Ogle, and Commodore Lestock on the first of April last.
- Vicar and Moses
- Victory and beauty : a new song
- Whig and Tory
- Will the weaver
- William Grismond's downfal; or, a lamentable murther by him committed at Lainterdine, in the county of Hereford, on March 12th, 1650 : Together with his lamentation. To the tune of, where is my love, &c
- Young Bateman's ghost: or, a godly warning to all maidens : by the example of Gods judgment shewn upon one German's wife of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham; who lying in child-bed, was borne away and never heard of after
- [A] pleasant new ballad to sing ev'ning and morn : [of the bl]oody murther of Sir John Barley-corn. To the tune of, Shall I lye beyond thee, &c. Licens'd and enter'd according to order
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