Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... looke another cracke3 lett goe which did a thunder1 rise . 172 Quoth the boy , " did " you euer see a woman let her pelletts flee ( 6 More thicke & more at ease ? ffye ! " said the boy vnto his dame , 176 " temper your teltale bumm ...
... looke another cracke3 lett goe which did a thunder1 rise . 172 Quoth the boy , " did " you euer see a woman let her pelletts flee ( 6 More thicke & more at ease ? ffye ! " said the boy vnto his dame , 176 " temper your teltale bumm ...
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... Looke thou be there on fryday next ; 404 Ile meet thee then , thou13 now perplext , for to ordaine thee sorrow . 14 " 408 2 MS . ye.-F. The boy replyed , " I make 15 avowe , fryer , Ile appeare as soone as thou , if fryday were to ...
... Looke thou be there on fryday next ; 404 Ile meet thee then , thou13 now perplext , for to ordaine thee sorrow . 14 " 408 2 MS . ye.-F. The boy replyed , " I make 15 avowe , fryer , Ile appeare as soone as thou , if fryday were to ...
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... , there came a shepeard , & requested in her lapp to sleepe and hower 3 ; This song is printed in many col- lections of songs . - P . 2 shady . - P . 3 an hour.-P. 8 but from her looke a wound he tooke soe 32 DULCINA.
... , there came a shepeard , & requested in her lapp to sleepe and hower 3 ; This song is printed in many col- lections of songs . - P . 2 shady . - P . 3 an hour.-P. 8 but from her looke a wound he tooke soe 32 DULCINA.
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... looke a wound he tooke soe deepe , that for a further boone the Nimph he prayes ; wherto shee sayes " forgoe me now , come to me soone . " But in vayne shee did coniure him " Go away . " to depart her presence soe , hauing thousand ...
... looke a wound he tooke soe deepe , that for a further boone the Nimph he prayes ; wherto shee sayes " forgoe me now , come to me soone . " But in vayne shee did coniure him " Go away . " to depart her presence soe , hauing thousand ...
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... looke yonder ; but youle not fly the place you haue begunn . Then Lets , & c . 1 Added by Percy . - F . 2 Dame Nature , faire creature . - P . 3 dye.-P. 4 wish ' twere . - F . O fairest ! deny me not ; let me en- joy thee ! Cupid will ...
... looke yonder ; but youle not fly the place you haue begunn . Then Lets , & c . 1 Added by Percy . - F . 2 Dame Nature , faire creature . - P . 3 dye.-P. 4 wish ' twere . - F . O fairest ! deny me not ; let me en- joy thee ! Cupid will ...
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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...