Broadside Ballads were the pop music of the Elizabethan and Stuart era. The cheapest form of literature available at the time, they sold for a penny a piece in marketplaces, and each song – printed on one side of a piece of paper – presented to the consumer a text in verse, the name of a tune and one or more simple ‘woodcut’ pictures.

...and you can listen to some of them through a link at this site.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/news/02022024ChrisMarshpopsongs.html