Hobhouse and Burdett are the dandy, o.
Bishop, J.
[London] : Sold by Kirby, 20, Silver Street, Golden Square. A. MacPherson, printer, Russell Court, Covent Garden,
[1819]
Both ballads are 'Written by the celebrated J. Bishop, poet laureat the poorest'.
Dated from internal evidence - in 1819 John Cam Hobhouse contested the parliamentary seat of Westminster, which had become vacant after the suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly. He stood as a radical, supported by his father and by Sir Francis Burdett, but was defeated on 3 March by the whig George Lamb, who is also mentioned in the text of the ballads - information from the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' online.
Hobhouse and Burdett are the dandy, o - first line reads: Come, push on all you can.
Hobhouse and Burdett are the dandy, o - Tune: The little dandy, o.
In two columns with a woodcut above each.
The Lamb's head and pluck - first line reads: There was a Lamb, stuck on a pole.
The Lamb's head and pluck - Tune: Miss Bailey.
Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Lamb, George, 1784-1834
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