You may like to have a look at a new website, www.100ballads.org, compiled by Christopher Marsh and Angela McShane. In fact there are 120 Seventeenth Century ballads to explore on the site and you can see a facsimile of the ballad, read a transcription, and hear it sung, as well as learn details of the history and background of the ballads. A good way to spend a winter evening.
