Printed in 1656 and promptly ordered suppressed by the Protectorate, this miscellany gathers love songs, ballads, pastorals, satires and witty verses by Cavalier and anonymous poets. Ebsworth’s long introduction sets the scene of the two courts and the Puritan censors, and the collection includes the rare satirical survey On the Time-Poets.
A lively window on what Royalist readers sang and laughed at during the Commonwealth. Download the free EPUB.