Transcribed from the 1857 John W. Parker and Son edition byDavid Price, 
ANCIENT POEMS
BALLADS AND SONGS
OF THE
PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND.
TAKEN DOWNFROM ORAL RECITATION AND TRANSCRIBED FROM
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPTS, RARE BROADSIDESAND
SCARCE PUBLICATIONS.
EDITED BY ROBERT BELL
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LONDON
JOHN W. PARKER AND SON WEST STRAND
1857
 
p. iiLONDON:
SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS
CHANDOS STREET.
 
p.iiiCONTENTS
 
PAGE
Introduction
7
Poems.
The Plain-Dealing Man
11
The Vanities of Life
15
The Life and Age of Man
20
The Young Man’s Wish
22
The Midnight Messenger
24
A Dialogue betwixt an Exciseman andDeath
29
The Messenger of Mortality
32
England’s Alarm
36
Smoking Spiritualized
39
The Masonic Hymn
42
God Speed the Plow, and Bless theCorn-mow
44
A Dialogue between the                        
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