Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... give in to Mr. Procter's opinion that because ladies of the Court liked Jonson's jokes , coarse to us , therefore they could not appreciate his fancy and the higher qualities of his mind . Manners refine slowly , and speech as 1 " On ...
... give in to Mr. Procter's opinion that because ladies of the Court liked Jonson's jokes , coarse to us , therefore they could not appreciate his fancy and the higher qualities of his mind . Manners refine slowly , and speech as 1 " On ...
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... gives all the bibliography of the poem , except a notice of Mr. Halliwell's print of it in the Warton Club " Early English Miscellanies , " 1854 , p . 46–62 , from Mr. Ormsby Gore's Porkington MS . No. 10. This Porkington copy is in ...
... gives all the bibliography of the poem , except a notice of Mr. Halliwell's print of it in the Warton Club " Early English Miscellanies , " 1854 , p . 46–62 , from Mr. Ormsby Gore's Porkington MS . No. 10. This Porkington copy is in ...
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... . 8 gramercye . - P . 9 And for the meate thou gave to me . -P . 10 I will • • 11 The best unto.-P. know.-P. 12 ye give to me.-P. 18 Yea never bow nor break . - P . 88 ffor if thou shoot therin all day , waking 12 FRYAR AND BOYE .
... . 8 gramercye . - P . 9 And for the meate thou gave to me . -P . 10 I will • • 11 The best unto.-P. know.-P. 12 ye give to me.-P. 18 Yea never bow nor break . - P . 88 ffor if thou shoot therin all day , waking 12 FRYAR AND BOYE .
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... give.-P. and gives it him . He chooses 2. a pipe . The old man promises him a very charming one . The boy is content . The old man bids him choose his third pre- sent . be- 10 behight , printed copy , behett ; hight , behote ...
... give.-P. and gives it him . He chooses 2. a pipe . The old man promises him a very charming one . The boy is content . The old man bids him choose his third pre- sent . be- 10 behight , printed copy , behett ; hight , behote ...
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... give it to the friar . Shoots it . The friar gone among the bushes to pick it up , Jack pipes and makes him dance . The briars scratch and tear him . 220 The boy replyed , " what ayleth thee ? my stepdame is as well as thee ; what needs ...
... give it to the friar . Shoots it . The friar gone among the bushes to pick it up , Jack pipes and makes him dance . The briars scratch and tear him . 220 The boy replyed , " what ayleth thee ? my stepdame is as well as thee ; what needs ...
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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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