BAWDY BALLADS OF OLD ENGLAND Diddle Diddle, or the Kind Country Lovers; The Fair Maid of Islington; Green Stockings; The Jovial Lass, or Dol and Roger; Mundanga Was; Lady of Pleasure; The Old Wife; The Beehive; Blue Petticoats, or Green Garters; The Gelding of the Devil; The Maid's Complaint For Want of a Dil Doul; Oyster Nan; The Frolic; The Husband Who Met His Match; The Jovial Broom Man; The Disappointment; The Lusty Young Smith; Greensleeves and Yellow Lace; The Jolly Brown Turd; Two Rounds: Tom Making a Manteau; When Celia Was Learning; Lady Lie Near Me; Oh How You Protest; A Delightful Ditty of Mother Watkin's Ale; Miss Nelly The City Waites "it is no good having lewd works one cannot hear, even if they are all included in the booklet... so full marks for the City Waites and their swinging dialect style... items here are sometimes accompanied, sometimes not, but they are made here into lively entertainments" (Penguin Guide, 3 stars) "a taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration and all too easily forgotten.. The Maid's Complaint is a remarkably spontaneous scene, led by soprano Lucie skeaping complete with a bunch of drunks who join in, late... Good fun but not very clean!" (Gramophone)