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Yet shce said , " stay ! goe not away although the point be bended ! but toot againe , & hit the vaine ! once more , & none can Mend it . ” but still she cried 32 " Once more . She helped him Then in her Armes shee did him fold ...
Yet shce said , " stay ! goe not away although the point be bended ! but toot againe , & hit the vaine ! once more , & none can Mend it . ” but still she cried 32 " Once more . She helped him Then in her Armes shee did him fold ...
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But when they shold part , it went to her hart , & gaue her more cause for to crye , - O kill me , kill me , once againe , ffor Now I am willing to dye ! ” ffins . 32 1 1 ffrpar : and Boye.2 The present is the completest.
But when they shold part , it went to her hart , & gaue her more cause for to crye , - O kill me , kill me , once againe , ffor Now I am willing to dye ! ” ffins . 32 1 1 ffrpar : and Boye.2 The present is the completest.
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7 These gott him soe feirce a stomacke againe , that now he wants meate wheron to ffeeda : 8 he called for the victualls were drest for his traine , and they brought him vp an alepotrida , 9 Wherin were 10 mingled courtier , 11 clowne ...
7 These gott him soe feirce a stomacke againe , that now he wants meate wheron to ffeeda : 8 he called for the victualls were drest for his traine , and they brought him vp an alepotrida , 9 Wherin were 10 mingled courtier , 11 clowne ...
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24 “ Now you haue enioyed the Measure of pleasure , “ indeed I [ ' m ] destroyed if you speake of it againe ; for women doe proue neclected , reiected , when freedome of love is known to other men .
24 “ Now you haue enioyed the Measure of pleasure , “ indeed I [ ' m ] destroyed if you speake of it againe ; for women doe proue neclected , reiected , when freedome of love is known to other men .
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... then I quite Loose my good name ; but yett the worst of Maids disgract , I am not first nor shalbe last . 24 I camot in MS.-F. Never mind . Come on again . 28 Once againe 49 DOE YOU MEANE.
... then I quite Loose my good name ; but yett the worst of Maids disgract , I am not first nor shalbe last . 24 I camot in MS.-F. Never mind . Come on again . 28 Once againe 49 DOE YOU MEANE.
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| Title | Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4 Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Frederick James Furnivall |
| Author | Thomas Percy |
| Editors | Frederick James Furnivall, John Wesley Hales |
| Contributor | British Library |
| Publisher | N. Trübner, 1867 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 127 pages |
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