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Honorary Secretary : HENRY B. WHEATLEY , Esq . , 53 BERNERS STREET , LONDON , W. Bankers : THE UNION BANK OF LONDON , REGENT STREET BRANCH , 14 ARGYLL PLACE , W. The Publications for 1864-65 and 66 are out of print , but a few copies ...
Honorary Secretary : HENRY B. WHEATLEY , Esq . , 53 BERNERS STREET , LONDON , W. Bankers : THE UNION BANK OF LONDON , REGENT STREET BRANCH , 14 ARGYLL PLACE , W. The Publications for 1864-65 and 66 are out of print , but a few copies ...
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... as appears from a parody of it inserted ( as a solemn piece of music ) in Hemming's Jew's Tragedy , act 4 , 4to , 1662.-N.B. The marginal corrections are made from this Parody . ” — P . 3-2 Not in the Percy Folio copy.
... as appears from a parody of it inserted ( as a solemn piece of music ) in Hemming's Jew's Tragedy , act 4 , 4to , 1662.-N.B. The marginal corrections are made from this Parody . ” — P . 3-2 Not in the Percy Folio copy.
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PERHAPS the following may have been suggested by the ballad of “ The Two Leicestershire Lovers ; to the tune of And yet methinks I love thee , ” a copy of which is in the Roxburghe Collection , I. 412. The subject of each is two lovers ...
PERHAPS the following may have been suggested by the ballad of “ The Two Leicestershire Lovers ; to the tune of And yet methinks I love thee , ” a copy of which is in the Roxburghe Collection , I. 412. The subject of each is two lovers ...
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This proves that the popularity of the song had extended to Holland twenty - two years before the earliest English copy that I have hitherto found . If the date given for the Percy folio , about 1620 , is right , it contains the ...
This proves that the popularity of the song had extended to Holland twenty - two years before the earliest English copy that I have hitherto found . If the date given for the Percy folio , about 1620 , is right , it contains the ...
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1 ffrpar : and Boye.2 The present is the completest copy known to us of this capital story . Wynkyn de Worde's , reprinted ( with collations ) by Mr. W.C. Hazlitt ( “ Early Popular Poetry , ” v . 3 , p .
1 ffrpar : and Boye.2 The present is the completest copy known to us of this capital story . Wynkyn de Worde's , reprinted ( with collations ) by Mr. W.C. Hazlitt ( “ Early Popular Poetry , ” v . 3 , p .
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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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