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Thread #15886   Message #145108
Posted By: Bruce O.
05-Dec-99 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: English Civil War
Subject: RE: English Civil War
Correction: ZN833 is Laurence Price's imitation of "Fain I would", not the original in the scarce songs 1 file. Joseph Franck's bibliography is an index of published songs and poetry. Publishers of the newspapers of the time quite often got a fine and a time in jail for some of the songs and poems they published, and some songs, like "Fain I would" and the political "Fair Fidelia, tempt no more" are known only from manuscript copies. There was a supression of broadside ballads, and the only entries of broadside ballads in the Stationers' Register from the start of 143 were 3 in 1643, 1 in 1644, 1 in 1645, 2 in 1649, then none until Mar. 12, 1656, when many were entered. Several are, however, known to have been printed in that period, altough not entered.