Dimensions 180 x 250 mm. Single leaf broadside. In two columns, with woodcut illustrations at head of each. Numbered at foot '27'. A trifle creased.

An apparently unrecorded mid-nineteenth-century broadside ballad featuring a comical song 'The Pope', in which it is declared that the life of a Sultan is preferable to that of the Pontiff, primary due to the former enjoying the pleasures of a hareem.

'The Sultan better pleases me, He lives a life of jollity, Has wives as many as he will - I would the Sultan's throne then fill. '