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Few remarks are more often quoted than Fletcher of Saltoun's, Let me make the ballads of a country, and I care not who makes its laws. But the laws of Fletcher's own country at one time took an unfair advantage over the ballads. For in Calvinistic Scotland of the sixteenth century, these metrical romances were considered as altogether profane and ungodly, and no marriage could be celebrated unless the contracting parties deposited £10 as caution-money that they would have no minstrels at the wedding. Under the Regent Morton, printing a ballad was punishable with death, and in I 579 two luckless poets were actually hanged for the high crime and misdemeanour of making ballads. What Morton and Knox would have done with the still more criminal translator of ballads it is impossible to say.
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Few remarks are more often quoted than Fletcher of Saltoun's, Let me make the ballads of a country, and I care not who makes its laws. But the laws of Fletcher's own country at one time took an unfair advantage over the ballads. For in Calvinistic Scotland of the sixteenth century, these metrical romances were considered as altogether profane and ungodly, and no marriage could be celebrated unless the contracting parties deposited £10 as caution-money that they would have no minstrels at the wedding. Under the Regent Morton, printing a ballad was punishable with death, and in I 579 two luckless poets were actually hanged for the high crime and misdemeanour of making ballads. What Morton and Knox would have done with the still more criminal translator of ballads it is impossible to say.
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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.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1333568584
- ISBN 13 9781333568580
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages330
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