Martin Parker was a Royalist praised by Dryden as a ballad-maker; two of his songs are reprinted in Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler. John Nichols: "I am afraid Martin Parker's ballads must be consigned to oblivion" Select Collection (1780-84) 3:263.
TEXT RECORDS:
1641The Poet's Blind Mans Bough.
PUBLICATIONS:
The nightengale warbling forth her owne disaster. 1632.
A true tale of Robin Hood. 1632?
The two inseparable brothers; or a true and strange description. 1637.
A briefe dissection of Germaines affliction: with warre, pestilence, and famine. 1638.
A true and terrible narration of a horrible earthquake in Calabria. 1638.
A paire of turtle-doves; or, a dainty new Scotch dialogue. 1640?
Guy of Warwick. 1640.
The poet's blind mans bough, or have among you my blind harpers. 1641.
The figure of five. 1645?
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL.
F. S. in Death in a New Dress, or Sportive Funeral Elegies (1656); Thomas Park in Censura Literaria 7 (1808) 52-55; Joseph Haslewood, "Parker's Poet's Blind Mans Bough" British Bibliographer 2 (1812) 431-36; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-Poetica 9 (1879) 110-19; H. E. Rollins, Modern Philology 16 (1918-19) and 19 (1921-22); Bush, OHEL (1945).
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