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Image Credits
Colledge, Stephen. English Broadside Ballad Archive. A RA-REE SHOW. 1681. Houghton Library - EBB65. EBBA 35031. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/35031/image.
English Broadside Ballad Archive. A / Character of a true Christian. 1680. Houghton Library - EBB65. EBBA 35007. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/35007/image.
English Broadside Ballad Archive. A / HUE and CRY / AFTER / Beauty and Virtue. Houghton Library - EB65 A100 685h. EBBA 34408. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/34408/image.
English Broadside Ballad Archive. A Lamentable Ballad of the Ladies Fall. / Declaring how a Gentlewoman through her too much trust came to her end, and how / her Lover slew himself. 1674-1679. C.20.f.9.148-149. British Library - Roxburghe. EBBA 30454. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/30454/image.
English Broadside Ballad Archive. The Amorous Gallant. / Who had a Mistris lovely, fair and kind, / She gave him all things to content his mind; / But he unkind, when he had done his pleasure, / Would have forsaken this beloved treasure: / But by her charms, to Wife she made him take her, / And now he swears he never will forsake her. 1663-1674. Houghton Library - 25242.67. 1.3. EBBA 35252. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/35252/image.
Hogarth, William. The Enraged Musician, 1741. Engraving on laid paper, 14 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. (36.9 x 41.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Samuel E. Haslett, 22.1871. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 22.1871_acetate_bw.jpg). https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/22721.
Lee, A., & Bayly, T. H. (1830). The rover’s bride : a ballad. Alexander Lee & Lee. McMaster University, Hamilton. Archive and Research Collections (Mills lower level). Books (M 1621 .L6). Author's own photography.
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