Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... giue them both good life & longe which listen doe vnto my songe , or tend vnto my talle1 ! The rhyme every where requires that it should be written or pronounced FRERE , as in Chaucer . - P . In our earliest Rhyming Dictionary ...
... giue them both good life & longe which listen doe vnto my songe , or tend vnto my talle1 ! The rhyme every where requires that it should be written or pronounced FRERE , as in Chaucer . - P . In our earliest Rhyming Dictionary ...
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... giue consent , for that I thinke it neede . " On the Morrow when it was day , the litle boy went on his way vnto the feild 5 with speede . Off noe man hee tooke anye care , 6 but song " hey ho ! away the Mare ?! " much mirth he did ...
... giue consent , for that I thinke it neede . " On the Morrow when it was day , the litle boy went on his way vnto the feild 5 with speede . Off noe man hee tooke anye care , 6 but song " hey ho ! away the Mare ?! " much mirth he did ...
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... giuen meate to me , ' 80 & I will giue 3 things to thee , 10 84 what ere thou wilt intreat . " Then sayd the boy , " tis best , I trow , 11 that bestow on me yee 12 a bowe with which I burds may gett . " " A bow , my sonné , I will thee ...
... giuen meate to me , ' 80 & I will giue 3 things to thee , 10 84 what ere thou wilt intreat . " Then sayd the boy , " tis best , I trow , 11 that bestow on me yee 12 a bowe with which I burds may gett . " " A bow , my sonné , I will thee ...
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... giue to thee 108 112 as I haue sayd before . " The boy then smiling , answere made , " I haue enough for my pore trade , I will desire noe more . " The old man sayd , " my troth is plight , thou shalt haue all I thee behight 10 ; say on ...
... giue to thee 108 112 as I haue sayd before . " The boy then smiling , answere made , " I haue enough for my pore trade , I will desire noe more . " The old man sayd , " my troth is plight , thou shalt haue all I thee behight 10 ; say on ...
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... giue me some meate , I am hungrye , by Saint Iohn ! " Meateless I haue lyen all the day , 152 & kept your beasts , they did not stray ; 156 My dinner was but ill . " His ffather tooke a Capon9 winge , & at the boy 10 he did it fling ...
... giue me some meate , I am hungrye , by Saint Iohn ! " Meateless I haue lyen all the day , 152 & kept your beasts , they did not stray ; 156 My dinner was but ill . " His ffather tooke a Capon9 winge , & at the boy 10 he did it fling ...
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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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