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In the seventeenth and eighteenth century people of all classes listened to what we might now call folk songs. In The Spectator in 1711, Joseph Addison remarked how, for instance, the ballad of The Two Children in the Wood was not only ‘one of the darling songs of the common people’ but also ‘the delight of most Englishmen in some …
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