Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous SongsN. Trubner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... Ballads and Romances of the MS . it be enough that they are put in type . Let 1 Cp . Punch : " But that indelicate ! There ! you might have knocked me down with a feather ! " * SECOND NOTICE . SOME of these songs the Editors would iv ...
... Ballads and Romances of the MS . it be enough that they are put in type . Let 1 Cp . Punch : " But that indelicate ! There ! you might have knocked me down with a feather ! " * SECOND NOTICE . SOME of these songs the Editors would iv ...
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... Ballads and Romances ; but no age , no man , has been without drawbacks , without sensual feelings or the expression of them . They are natural : improper delight in them alone is wrong . And from the expressions of this improper ...
... Ballads and Romances ; but no age , no man , has been without drawbacks , without sensual feelings or the expression of them . They are natural : improper delight in them alone is wrong . And from the expressions of this improper ...
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... Ballads and Romances before they were turned into this volume , the rest of the pieces were side - noted for uniformity's sake . The italics in the text are extensions of the contractions of the Manuscript . August , 1867 . CONTENTS ...
... Ballads and Romances before they were turned into this volume , the rest of the pieces were side - noted for uniformity's sake . The italics in the text are extensions of the contractions of the Manuscript . August , 1867 . CONTENTS ...
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... Ballads , I. 454 , with the title " A well - wishing to a place of pleasure . To an excellent new tune , " and with six more lines in each stanza . We quote it here for contrast sake . A WELL - WISHING TO A PLACE OF PLEASURE . See the ...
... Ballads , I. 454 , with the title " A well - wishing to a place of pleasure . To an excellent new tune , " and with six more lines in each stanza . We quote it here for contrast sake . A WELL - WISHING TO A PLACE OF PLEASURE . See the ...
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... ballad - publisher immortalized by Ben Jonson in his " Every Man in his Humour . " ( " Well , if he read this with patience , I'll go and troll ballads for Master John Trundle yonder , the rest of my mortality . " ) The printed copy is ...
... ballad - publisher immortalized by Ben Jonson in his " Every Man in his Humour . " ( " Well , if he read this with patience , I'll go and troll ballads for Master John Trundle yonder , the rest of my mortality . " ) The printed copy is ...
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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Volume III John W. Furnivall, Frederick J. Hales Limited preview - 2020 |
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Common terms and phrases
ballad belly Ben Jonson cannott Cock Lorell codlings cold Cupid dad ont Dame dance delight devill ding doth drinke drunk Dulcina euery father ffeare ffind ffinis ffins ffor fforth ffrom ffull Folio frere.-P friar fryar fryer furmitree gaue ging &c giue goodman Grandam boy hart hast hath haue heare heere hey &c heyda heye Iacke Jack Jonson's kisse lasse leaue lett liffe Lillumwham &c litle liue loue louers maid maidenhead Masques mayd meate melio shance merry neuer night Officiall old Simon Panche Percy Folio Phillips.-F pipe pleasure proue quoth shee sate sayd sayes shame shee cryes shee wold shold song sonne stanza sweet take heede &c tell thé thee thou to-iour bonne tannce Tom Longe tune VENETIA stanley vnder vnto vpon watt wench wiffe William Shepparde woman yett young
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Page 77 - I haue bin as vnable to know them as a-shamed to chalenge them. This therefore I was the willinger to furnish out in his natiue habit : first being by consent, next because the rest haue been so wronged in being publisht in such sauadge and ragged garments: accept it courteous Gentlemen, and prooue as fauorable Readers as we haue found you gratious Auditors. Yours TH...
Page 77 - We weare more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted ; which hath given occasion to the Venetian, and other Italians, to brand the Englishman with a notable mark of levity, by painting him stark naked, with a pair of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vain conception of his brain-sick head, not to comeliness and decorum.
Page 39 - After him succeeded by the General Councel one Cock Lorele, the most notorious knave that ever lived. By trade he was a tinker, often carrying a panne and a hammer for a show ; but when he came to a good booty he would cast his profession in a ditch, and play the padder...
Page 77 - Yet since some of my plays have (unknown to me, and without any of my direction) accidentally come into the printer's hands, and therefore so corrupt and mangled (copied only by the ear) that I have been as unable to know them as ashamed to challenge them...
Page 100 - THOU art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead Or laid aside forlorn, Then willow-garlands, 'bout the head, Bedew'd with tears, are worn.
Page 76 - THE Spaniard loves his ancient slop, The Lombard his Venetian, And some like breechless women go, The Russ, Turk, Jew, and Grecian : The thrifty Frenchman wears small waist, The Dutch his belly boasteth, The Englishman is for them all, And for each fashion coasteth.
Page 77 - Crudities, p. 260, has this remark ; " we weare more phantasticall fashions then any nation under the sunne doth, the French onely excepted ; which hath given occasion both to the Venetian and other Italians to brand the Englishman with a notable marke of levity, by painting him starke naked with a paire of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vaine invention of his braine-sicke head, not to comelinesse and decorum.
Page 4 - I hard a voice which made a Noise, which caused me to attend it, I heard a lasse say to a Ladd, " once more, & none can mend it.
Page 3 - Here was a letter indeed, to be intercepted by a man's father, and do him good with him ! He cannot but think most virtuously, both of me. and the sender, sure, that make the careful costermonger of him in our familiar epistles. Well, if he read this with patience I'll be gelt, and troll ballads for Master John Trundle yonder, the rest of my mortality.
Page 96 - THE maid shee went to the well to washe, Lillumwham, lillumwham ! The mayd shee went to the well to washe, Whatt then ? what then ? The maid shee went to the well to washe, Dew ffell of her lilly white fleshe.