Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... earliest English copy that I have hitherto found . If the date given for the Percy folio , about 1620 , is right , it contains the earliest copy known . - W . C. 4 WHEN Phebus addrest himselfe to the west , & set vp his rest below ...
... earliest English copy that I have hitherto found . If the date given for the Percy folio , about 1620 , is right , it contains the earliest copy known . - W . C. 4 WHEN Phebus addrest himselfe to the west , & set vp his rest below ...
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... earliest Rhyming Dictionary , Levins's Manipulus , 1570 , under the words in eare , are entered a Bryar , a Fryar , a Whyer , chorus , a Quear of paper , liber , [ page 97. ] May God bless us ! p . 209 , col . 1. E. E. Text Soc . 1867 ...
... earliest Rhyming Dictionary , Levins's Manipulus , 1570 , under the words in eare , are entered a Bryar , a Fryar , a Whyer , chorus , a Quear of paper , liber , [ page 97. ] May God bless us ! p . 209 , col . 1. E. E. Text Soc . 1867 ...
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... earliest and titleless copy of the play in the British Museum - which I suppose to be the edition of 1608 , and the readings of which in the notes below are signed B.M. - runs thus : The Spaniard loues his ancient slop , The Lumbard ...
... earliest and titleless copy of the play in the British Museum - which I suppose to be the edition of 1608 , and the readings of which in the notes below are signed B.M. - runs thus : The Spaniard loues his ancient slop , The Lumbard ...
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... earliest Rhyming Dictionary . To be Edited by Henry B. Wheatley , Esq . [ In the Press . LANGLANDE'S VISION OF PIERS PLOWMAN : the earliest Version from the earliest MS . Collated throughout with three other MSS . of the same ( or earliest ) ...
... earliest Rhyming Dictionary . To be Edited by Henry B. Wheatley , Esq . [ In the Press . LANGLANDE'S VISION OF PIERS PLOWMAN : the earliest Version from the earliest MS . Collated throughout with three other MSS . of the same ( or earliest ) ...
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... earliest Rhyming Dictionary . To be Edited by Henry B. Wheatley , Esq . 12s . 28. LANGLANDE'S VISION OF PIERS PLOWMAN : the earliest Version from the earliest MS . Collated throughout with three other MSS . of the same ( or earliest ) ...
... earliest Rhyming Dictionary . To be Edited by Henry B. Wheatley , Esq . 12s . 28. LANGLANDE'S VISION OF PIERS PLOWMAN : the earliest Version from the earliest MS . Collated throughout with three other MSS . of the same ( or earliest ) ...
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Page 32 - Psalmes, or Songs of Sion, turned into the language, and set to the tunes of a strange land...