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5 , of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue , be Alexander Hume , ab . 1617 A.D. , edited by Henry B. Wheatley , Esq . , 4s . No. 1 is Early English Alliterative | Exodus , ab . 1250 ; 8 , Morte Arthure , ab . Poems , ab ...
5 , of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue , be Alexander Hume , ab . 1617 A.D. , edited by Henry B. Wheatley , Esq . , 4s . No. 1 is Early English Alliterative | Exodus , ab . 1250 ; 8 , Morte Arthure , ab . Poems , ab ...
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The Poems not marked with Percy's three crosses as loose , which we have transferred to these pages , are Men that more ; Panche ; In a May Morninge ; The Turk in Linen ; Louers hearke alarum ; O nay , 0 nay , not yet ; I cannot be ...
The Poems not marked with Percy's three crosses as loose , which we have transferred to these pages , are Men that more ; Panche ; In a May Morninge ; The Turk in Linen ; Louers hearke alarum ; O nay , 0 nay , not yet ; I cannot be ...
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The subject of each is two lovers ; both poems are in nearly the same metre , and begin with the same line . The difference is in the after - treatment . The “ Two Leicestershire Lovers " begins thus :" Walking in a meadow green For ...
The subject of each is two lovers ; both poems are in nearly the same metre , and begin with the same line . The difference is in the after - treatment . The “ Two Leicestershire Lovers " begins thus :" Walking in a meadow green For ...
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This song is printed in “ Merry Drollery Complete , ” Part 2 , 1661 and 1670 , also in “ Wit and Drollery , Jovial Poems , ” 1656 , p . 35. The tune is printed under the title of the burden “ O doe not , doe not kill me yet , ” in J. J. ...
This song is printed in “ Merry Drollery Complete , ” Part 2 , 1661 and 1670 , also in “ Wit and Drollery , Jovial Poems , ” 1656 , p . 35. The tune is printed under the title of the burden “ O doe not , doe not kill me yet , ” in J. J. ...
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Mr. Hazlitt's introduction gives all the bibliography of the poem , except a notice of Mr. Halliwell's print of it in the Warton Club “ Early English Miscellanies , ” 1854 , p . 46–62 , from Mr. Ormsby Gore's Porkington MS . No. 10.
Mr. Hazlitt's introduction gives all the bibliography of the poem , except a notice of Mr. Halliwell's print of it in the Warton Club “ Early English Miscellanies , ” 1854 , p . 46–62 , from Mr. Ormsby Gore's Porkington MS . No. 10.
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