ballad-monger

Bard, scald, minstrel, gleeman, with their heroic rhymes and long metrical romances, gave way in the evolution of song and harmony to the ballad-monger with his licence.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

[DH] An almanack-maker; a ballad-monger; a corranto-coiner; a decoy; an exchange man; a forrester; a gamester; an hospitall-man; a iayler; a keeper; a launderer; a metall man; a neuter; an ostler; a post-master: a quest-man; a ruffian; a sailor; a trauller; an vnder sheriffe; a wine-soaker; a Xantippean; a yealous neighbour; a zealous brother.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Friend_, where he is introduced to us as a ballad-monger.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

A thorough knowledge and mastery of legendary lore, and a little power and concentration of thought and imagery, were the only qualities requisite for a ballad-monger.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Even as it was, he had no lack of apologists; and an eminent ballad-monger celebrated his exploits in some verses, which were immensely applauded when recited by long-haired enthusiasts at smoking concerts and similar gatherings.

The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

So sang a ballad-monger of the Revolution; and the opinion which he voiced persisted after him.

The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration W. Stewart Wallace 1927

I have often thought with vexation and spleen, how, in order to gain a paltry living, you must fix your heart on a wandering ballad-monger, and a silly mongrel, neither male nor female.

Chapter XI. Book III 1917

We first meet Silas Wegg in the fifth chapter of Our Mutual Friend, where he is introduced to us as a ballad-monger.

Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

Was he not the idol of a select group who admired not only one another but also the satanism of Baudelaire, the hieratic obscenities of Beardsley, the mustiest Persian sage, the modernest American ballad-monger?

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

When Glendower praises poetry, Hotspur vows he'd “rather be a kitten and cry mew ... than a metre ballad-monger. ...”

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909