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MARTIN PARKER (c. 1600-c. 1656)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN See also:PARKER (c. 1600-c. 1656)  , See also:English ballad writer, was probably a See also:London See also:tavern-keeper . About 1625 he seems to have begun See also:publishing See also:ballads, a large number of which bearing his See also:signature or his See also:initials,"M.P.," are preserved in the See also:British Museum . See also:Dryden considered him the best ballad writer of his See also:time . His sympathies were with the Royalistcause during the See also:Civil See also:War, and it was in support of the declining fortunes of See also:Charles I. that he wrote the best known of his ballads, " When the See also:King enjoys his own again," which he first published in 1643, and which, after .enjoying See also:great popularity at the Restoration, became a favourite Jacobite See also:song in the 18th See also:century . See also:Parker also wrote a nautical ballad, " Sailors for my See also:Money," which in a revised version survives as " When the stormy winds do See also:blow." It is not known when he died, but the See also:appearance in 1656 of a " funeral See also:elegy," in which the ballad writer was satirically celebrated is perhaps a correct indication of the date of his See also:death . See The See also:Roxburghe Ballads, vol. iii . (Ballad See also:Soc., 9 vols., 1871–1899) ; See also:Joseph See also:Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica (London, 1802) ; See also:Ancient Songs and Ballads from See also:Henry H. to the Revolution, ed. by W . C . See also:Hazlitt (London, 1877) ; See also:Sir S . E . See also:Brydges and T Haslewood, The British Bibliographer, vol. ii . (London, 181o); See also:Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-poetica (London, 1860-1883) .

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