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Lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan age
Vocal poetry
The cavalier songs and ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
Songs from the dramatists
The King and the commons
Minstrelsy of the Scottish border
English and Scottish ballads
Reliques of ancient English poetry
Ancient songs and ballads, from the reign of King Henry the Second to the revolution
Ballads and lyrics of love
The universal songster
Lyrics from the dramatists of the Elizabethan age
Victorian songs
The ballad of tradition
Ballads and poems illustrating English history
The book of ballads
A history of English balladry, and other studies
An Antidote against melancholy
More lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age
A handefull of pleasant delites
The ballad in literature
Old ballads
English madrigal verse, 1588-1632
Ancient metrical tales
The Oxford book of ballads, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Old English ballads
The Viking book of folk ballads of the English-speaking world
Reliques of ancient English poetry
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads
Essays on song-writing
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