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Introduction |
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Against Filthy Writing, and Such Like Delighting |
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A Briefe Sonet Declaring the Lamentation of Beckles |
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A Ditty Delightfull of Mother Watkins Ale |
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A Pleasant Countrey New Ditty: Merrily Shewing How to Driue the Cold Winter Away |
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Gestes of Robin Hood and Other Outlaws |
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Robin Hood and Little John |
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Robin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the Potter |
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From Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly |
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Religious Dissension and Superstition |
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The True Description of Two Monsterous Children |
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A True and Most Dreadfull Discourse of a Woman Possessed with the Deuill |
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A Letter Written by Chidiock Tichborne to His Wife, the Night Before He Suffered |
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Hendecasyllabon T. K. in Cygneam Cantionem Chidiochi Tychborne |
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The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches |
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A New-Yeeres-Gift for the Pope |
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The Tragedy of Doctor Lambe |
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Crime, Criminals and the London Underworld |
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A True Discourse of a Cruel and Inhumaine Murder, Committed vpon M. Padge of Plymouth |
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From Robert Greene, The Blacke Bookes Messenger |
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Thomas Middleton (?), The Last Will and Testament of Lawrence Lucifer |
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Richard Johnson, Looke on Me London |
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A Most Pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus |
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Tom Thumbe, His Life and Death |
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From The Life of Long Meg of Westminster |
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The Witch of the Woodlands |
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Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam |
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Merrie Conceited Iests, of George Peele |
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Pasqvils Iestes, Mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments |
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The Pleasant Conceites of Old Hobson the Merry Londoner |
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Conceits, Clinches, Flashes, and Whimzies |
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The Character of a Roundhead |
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From The Diurnal Occvrrances, 3-10 January, 1642 |
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From A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in Parliament, 21-28 February, 1641[ 2] |
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From A Diurnall Out of the North, 10-16 July, 1642 |
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From A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in Parliament, 29 August-5 September, 1642 |
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From The London City Petition 1643 |
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The Humble Petition of the House of Commons |
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From Mercurius Britanicus, 28 December-4 January, 1643[ 4] |
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From Mercvrivs Avlicvs, [ 7-13 January, 1644] |
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When the King Enjoys His Own Again |
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A Song in Defence of Christmass |
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From The Great Leveller Petition of 11 September 1648 |
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From Perfect Occurrences of Every Daie Iournall, 29 December-5 January, 1648[ 9] |
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From King Charls His Speech Made upon the Scaffold at Whitehall-Gate |
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From The Man in the Moon, 27 June-4 July, 1649 |
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From The Man in the Moon, 16-23 January, 1650 |
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From Mercurius Politicus, 29 May-5 June, 1651 |
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Upon the General Pardon Passed by the Rump |
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Oliver Cromwell's Speech Dissolving the Rump of the Long Parliament |
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From Mercurius Politicus, 22 February-1 March, 1654[ 5] |
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From The Weekly Intelligencer of the Common-Wealth, 21-28 August, [ 1655] |
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From Mercurius Politicus, 9-16 June, 1659 |
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A Letter from Generall Monck, November the 12th [ 1659] |
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The Doctors of Dull-Head Colledge |
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King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther |
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The Humours of Simpkin. A Continued Farce |
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Venus and Adonis, or, The Maid's Philosophy |
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Bibliography |
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Title Index |
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First-Line Index |
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