The Shirburn Ballads

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Excerpt from The Shirburn Ballads: 1585-1616 Throughout the ms. It is plain that the ballads are copied from printed exemplars. Thus, the copyist constantly changes his writing from English characters to Roman where the printed copies would make the same change, as in proper names, refrains, and the like. Interesting problems, but impossible to solve, are (i) to determine why the copyist set himself to write out' so much printed matter, and (ii) whence he got' the necessary Broadsides. Several possibilities suggest themselves. He may have borrowed Black-letter sheets from a wide circle of friends, or he may have rented a house whose owner had papered the walls with them. It will be remem bered that at Gloucester, in 1635, John Aubrey (brief Lives, ii. 249) saw the engraved description of Sir Philip Sidney's funeral doing duty as a chimney-piece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.