A recording of the Christopher Marlowe & Sir Walter Raleigh broadside ballad "A Most Excellent Ditty of the Lovers Promises to His Beloved & the Ladies Prudent Answer to Her Love" to the tune of Come Live with Me and Be My Love.
The broadside ballad: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/30141/

This recording was made for the site Come Live With Me: Living the History of a Ballad: https://comelivewithmeballad.wordpress.com
The site will be live in June 2016

Performed by Erik Bell and Jessica Sparks

Part 1 ends at 2:05, Part 2 begins at 2:06

Come Live With Me and Be My Love

Jessica Grace Sparks is a senior at the University of California at Santa Barbara and majoring in English and Renaissance Studies, with an Early Modern Specialization. Her central interests include the Italian Renaissance, conduct literature, and early modern broadside ballads.

Currently, in conjunction with the English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Arnhold Undergraduate Fellows Research Program at UCSB, Jessica is taking her research on Christopher Marlowe’s ballad “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and forming it into a website that will work as an interactive multimedia research tool intended to facilitate the study of both the poem and the broadside ballad of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”.

Come Live With Me: Living the History of a Ballad
The site will be live June 2016.

Jessica Sparks

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