Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... Doth resemble , If not dissemble , due praises giving.2 Harke , how the hollow Windes do blow And seem to murmur in every corner , for her long absence : The which doth plainly show The causes why I do now All this grief and sorrow show ...
... Doth resemble , If not dissemble , due praises giving.2 Harke , how the hollow Windes do blow And seem to murmur in every corner , for her long absence : The which doth plainly show The causes why I do now All this grief and sorrow show ...
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... doth me mighty care ; I dare not looke vpon his face , or hardly tell10 my shamefull case , soe filthylie I fare ; 1 well , not in P. C.-P. 2 Cp . Cotgrave's " Feroce , cruell , fierce , curst , hard - hearted , sterne , austere ...
... doth me mighty care ; I dare not looke vpon his face , or hardly tell10 my shamefull case , soe filthylie I fare ; 1 well , not in P. C.-P. 2 Cp . Cotgrave's " Feroce , cruell , fierce , curst , hard - hearted , sterne , austere ...
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... doth brim the sow ; & yet there is neuer a lacke for gill . " I had some hope , & to her spoke , ' sweet hart , shall I put my flesh in thine ? " " with all my hart , Sir ! your nose in my arse , " quoth she , " for to keepe out the ...
... doth brim the sow ; & yet there is neuer a lacke for gill . " I had some hope , & to her spoke , ' sweet hart , shall I put my flesh in thine ? " " with all my hart , Sir ! your nose in my arse , " quoth she , " for to keepe out the ...
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... doth for a 16 draught of Derbye ale call . he heaued the huge vessell vp to his nose , & left not till hee had drunk 17 vp all . 2 Aldermen lobsters . The Devil asks for more food . They give him an Olla Podrida of Bank- rupts , Lawyers ...
... doth for a 16 draught of Derbye ale call . he heaued the huge vessell vp to his nose , & left not till hee had drunk 17 vp all . 2 Aldermen lobsters . The Devil asks for more food . They give him an Olla Podrida of Bank- rupts , Lawyers ...
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... doth 15 not loue , preserue & send our gracious king 16 such meate as he loues , I beseeche god aboue ! 13 12 16 20 The Mode of ffrance . [ Page. Then the Devil breaks wind , 84 and the stink of that 88 is the Tobacco which Punks smoke ...
... doth 15 not loue , preserue & send our gracious king 16 such meate as he loues , I beseeche god aboue ! 13 12 16 20 The Mode of ffrance . [ Page. Then the Devil breaks wind , 84 and the stink of that 88 is the Tobacco which Punks smoke ...
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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...