Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... belly burst . I pray thee leaue thy fooling : heyda ! " " by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda , fie ! ” " what ? doe you meane to vse me soe ? I pray thee Robin let me goe : heyda , fye ! " " what a deale of doe is heere , is heere ...
... belly burst . I pray thee leaue thy fooling : heyda ! " " by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda , fie ! ” " what ? doe you meane to vse me soe ? I pray thee Robin let me goe : heyda , fye ! " " what a deale of doe is heere , is heere ...
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... belly round about , his harlotrye to hide . The thornes had scratcht him by the face , 272 the hands , the thighes , 10 & euery place , he was all bathed in bloode 1 He tare.-P. 2 His cap.-P. 3 cowle , a monk's hood.-P. 4 garment , A.-S ...
... belly round about , his harlotrye to hide . The thornes had scratcht him by the face , 272 the hands , the thighes , 10 & euery place , he was all bathed in bloode 1 He tare.-P. 2 His cap.-P. 3 cowle , a monk's hood.-P. 4 garment , A.-S ...
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... belly naked . When all were gathered round about , there was a vild vnrulye rout that dancing in the street , 388 Of which , some lame that cold not goe , striuing to leape , did tumble soe they dancet on hands & feet . 5 Iacke tyred ...
... belly naked . When all were gathered round about , there was a vild vnrulye rout that dancing in the street , 388 Of which , some lame that cold not goe , striuing to leape , did tumble soe they dancet on hands & feet . 5 Iacke tyred ...
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... belly but a swagge . A pox on the whore , they were but scrapps that I supposed was single monye ; the cattell had lice , or else perhapps I had light and tooke her by the coney . I had not further rydd a Myle but I mett with a market ...
... belly but a swagge . A pox on the whore , they were but scrapps that I supposed was single monye ; the cattell had lice , or else perhapps I had light and tooke her by the coney . I had not further rydd a Myle but I mett with a market ...
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... belly tooke in Like a barrowe As if tell 3 then he had neuer seene sowce.4 9 Then , Carbonadoed 5 & cooket 6 with paynes , 7 was sett on a clouen sergeants face ; the sawce was made of his yeamans 10 braynes , that had beene beaten out ...
... belly tooke in Like a barrowe As if tell 3 then he had neuer seene sowce.4 9 Then , Carbonadoed 5 & cooket 6 with paynes , 7 was sett on a clouen sergeants face ; the sawce was made of his yeamans 10 braynes , that had beene beaten out ...
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BALLADS and ROMANCES belly BOKES Cambridge cannott Cock Lorell codlings Colchester Castle cold copy Cupid dad ont dance delight devill doth Dulcina edited euery F. J. Furnivall father ffinis ffins ffor ffrom ffull FITZEDWARD HALL FLORIS AND BLANCHEFLOUR Folio frere.-P friar fryar fryer furmitree gaue ging &c giue Grandam boy hart hath haue heere hey &c heyda heye HUMOROUS SONGS Iacke Jack Jonson's kisse leaue lett Lillumwham &c litle liue LOOSE and HUMOROUS loue louers maid Masques mayd meate melio shance merry neuer night Officiall Panche Percy Folio Percy's Phillips.-F PIERS PLOWMAN pipe pleasure Poems printed quoth shee sate sayd shee cryes shee wold shold stanza sweet take heede &c tell thee thou Tom Longe tune vnder vnto vpon W. W. Skeat wench Wheatley wiffe woman yett
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Page 39 - After him succeeded, by the general council, one Cock Lorrell, the most notorious knave that ever lived.' . . By trade he was a tinker, often carrying a pan and hammer for shew ; but when he came to a good booty, he would cast his profession into a ditch, and play the padder.
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 32 - Psalmes, or Songs of Sion, turned into the language, and set to the tunes of a strange land...