Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... maids judging from French fishwomen's bare legs , often come to very wrong conclusions . Water clear to one generation needs straining for the next . Even Percy , and he a bishop , has not marked with his three crosses ( his marks of ...
... maids judging from French fishwomen's bare legs , often come to very wrong conclusions . Water clear to one generation needs straining for the next . Even Percy , and he a bishop , has not marked with his three crosses ( his marks of ...
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... MAID AND A YOUNGE MAN A CREATURE FOR FEATURE LYE ALONE 51 53 55 DOWNE SATE THE SHEPARD 57 MEN THAT MORE 59 PANCHE 61 WHEN AS I DOE RECCORD 68 WHEN SCORTCHING PHEBUS 70 IN A MAY MORNINGE 74 THE TURK IN LINEN 76 COME WANTON WENCHES AS IT ...
... MAID AND A YOUNGE MAN A CREATURE FOR FEATURE LYE ALONE 51 53 55 DOWNE SATE THE SHEPARD 57 MEN THAT MORE 59 PANCHE 61 WHEN AS I DOE RECCORD 68 WHEN SCORTCHING PHEBUS 70 IN A MAY MORNINGE 74 THE TURK IN LINEN 76 COME WANTON WENCHES AS IT ...
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... maid say " Don't kill me yet . " 8 for I am not prepared to dye ! " 12 16 With that I drew neare to see & to heare , & strange did appeare such a showe ; the Moone it was bright , & gaue such a light as ffitts not each wight to know : a ...
... maid say " Don't kill me yet . " 8 for I am not prepared to dye ! " 12 16 With that I drew neare to see & to heare , & strange did appeare such a showe ; the Moone it was bright , & gaue such a light as ffitts not each wight to know : a ...
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... P . 5 Quoth Jack , Sir , did.-P. 6thy.-P. " good maid.-P. 9 and day.-P. 9 This wife did love him as a saint . -P . 10 Nor . . . shew.-P. ... " for gods loue meet this boy1 to - morrow 16 FRYAR AND BOYE . FRYAR AND BOYE.
... P . 5 Quoth Jack , Sir , did.-P. 6thy.-P. " good maid.-P. 9 and day.-P. 9 This wife did love him as a saint . -P . 10 Nor . . . shew.-P. ... " for gods loue meet this boy1 to - morrow 16 FRYAR AND BOYE . FRYAR AND BOYE.
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... .—P. c 2 First I met a woman who wanted me . Then I met a market maid who sang that she wanted a lover . I offered myself , and she sold me . I asked to Occupy her . 30 “ Оссиру my mare , " said she . 29 WAS RIDINGE BY THE WAY.
... .—P. c 2 First I met a woman who wanted me . Then I met a market maid who sang that she wanted a lover . I offered myself , and she sold me . I asked to Occupy her . 30 “ Оссиру my mare , " said she . 29 WAS RIDINGE BY THE WAY.
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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...