The island of Britain : A loyal song. - 1803.
[London] : Printed for J. Ginger, 169, Picadilly, price 2s. 6d. for fifty, or 4s. per hundred, for distribution, - where may be had all the patriotic publications, properly assorted. Marchant, printer, 3, Greville-Street, Hatton-Garden,
[1803]
Dated from the British Book Trade Index.
In two columns.
New God save the king - first line reads: Sound trumpets, beat your drums.
New God save the king: From the British Neptune, Sunday, Sept. 4, 1803.
The island of Britain - first line reads: My friends, ye have heard, in the late British wars.
The island of Britain - tune: Hearts of Oak. From the British Neptune, Sunday, Aug. 28, 1803.
The ploughman's ditty: being an answer to that foolish question, "What have the poor to lose?" - first line reads: Because I'm but poor.
The ploughman's ditty: being an answer to that foolish question, "What have the poor to lose?" - tune: He that has the best wife. From the British Neptune, Sunday, Sept. 11, 1803.
Three ballads.
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Ballads, English
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815