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Document Reference	Pw V 43/100 (pp 427-36)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'A New Ballad Call'd the Magpyes', unascribed; 1680
Date	1680
Level	Piece
Content Description	A detailed description of the volume in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 43.
Content Description	Text consists of twenty-two verses of 6-lines plus the refrain 'With a hey tronny nonny nonny no'. Ballad also known as 'the song against the Bishops', referring to the Exclusion bill in Nov. 1680, sung by Aaron Smyth at the Feast of the Lords at the Gunn at Mile End Green. Dated 1680 in this manuscript.
Title Of Work	A New Ballad Call'd the Magpyes'
First Line of Poem	Assist me some Good Sprite
Last Line of Poem	And like Ravens Cry York York
Language	English
Physical Description	For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, binding etc) of the volume in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 43.
Related Material	Crum, Index, A 1774
Related Material	Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Don. b 8, p 621