“Political Poems and Songs, from Edward III to Richard III,” edited by Thomas Wright; Rolls Series, London, 1859, 1861.
“Political, Religious, and Love Poems,” edited by F. J. Furnivall; Early English Text Society, London, 1866.
“Catalogue of MS. Romances in the British Museum,” by Henry L. D. Ward, vol. i., London, 1887. See as to Robin Hood ballads, pp. 516–23.
“Bishop Percy’s folio MS.—Ballads and Romances,” edited by J. W. Hales and F. J. Furnivall, Ballad Society, London, 1867.
“The English and Scottish popular Ballads,” edited by Prof. F. J. Child, Boston, U.S.A., 1882, ff.
Many satirical songs are to be found in those collections on the vices of the times, the exaggerations of fashion, the ill government of the king, the Lollards, the friars, the women, with some songs in a higher key urging the king to defend the national honour and to make war. See for example Dr. Furnivall’s collection, p. 4. In this work is printed the song referred to in our text on the death of the Duke of Suffolk (pp. 6–11): {438}
Here folowythe a Dyrge made by the comons of Kent in the tyme of ther rysynge, when Jake Cade was theyr cappitayn:
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Who shall execute ye fest of solempnite?
Bysshoppis and lords, as gret reson is.