Percy's Reliques is a folio of ballads and popular songs illustrating Elizabethan life collected by Bishop Thomas Percy and published in 1765. Some were found on the floor of his friend Humphrey Pitt's house in Shifnal, Shropshire, where they had been used to light fires. Other sources was Samual Pepys Library of broadside ballads. This one illustrates a couple about to board thier coach...
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Percy's Reliques is a folio of ballads and popular songs collected by Bishop Thomas Percy and published in 1765. Some of them were found on the floor in the house of his friend Humphrey Pitt of Shifnal, a small market town of Shropshire, where Pitt's maid had been using the leaves to light fires. Other sources were the Pepys Library of broadside ballads collected by Samuel Pepys. They all serve to illustrate 16th Century domestic life during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. This one illustrates a new-fangled lady, that is dainty, nice, and spare, Who never knew what belong'd to good house-keeping, or care... Who buyes gaudy-color'd fans to play with wanton air, And seven or eight different dressings of other womens hair; like a young courtier ...