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Brotherton Collection	4
English Literature	4

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political ballads and songs, english	4
english poetry	4
political poetry, english	1

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A New collection of poems relating to state affairs, from Oliver Cromwel to this present time : by the greatest wits of the age : wherein, not only those that are contain'd in the three volumes already published are incerted [!], but also large additions of chiefest note, never before published : the whole from their respective originals, without castration

1705

Pirated from "Poems on affairs of state... written by the greatest wits of the age" (4 v., 1697-1707) and repudiated as "spurious" in v. 4 of the latter, which lists more than 100 items omitted from t...

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A Pill to purge state-melancholy : or, A collection of excellent new ballads

1715

Sometimes found with Durfey's collection, "Wit and mirth; or, Pills to purge melancholy". cf. Lowndes, p. 702. First edition.

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Tory pills to purge Whig melancholy : being a collection of the best poems, songs, &c. written in defence of church and state

1715

In this copy E3 is signed.

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A Collection of the newest and most ingenious poems, songs, catches, &c. against popery : relating to the times, several of which never before printed

1689

Table of contents and text printed in double columns. Second edition. Wing C5206.

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