Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... meate or drinke ; And yet I - wis it was but badde , 20 nor halfe enouge therof he hade , but euermore the worst ; 24 And therfore euill might shee fare , that did the litle boy such care , soe forth as shee durst . Vnto the man the ...
... meate or drinke ; And yet I - wis it was but badde , 20 nor halfe enouge therof he hade , but euermore the worst ; 24 And therfore euill might shee fare , that did the litle boy such care , soe forth as shee durst . Vnto the man the ...
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... meate in store 72 which thou mightest 5 giue to me ? " The child replyed , 66 soe god me saue ! to such poore victualls as I haue , right welcome shall you be . " Of this the old man was full gladd , the boy drew forth such as he hadd ...
... meate in store 72 which thou mightest 5 giue to me ? " The child replyed , 66 soe god me saue ! to such poore victualls as I haue , right welcome shall you be . " Of this the old man was full gladd , the boy drew forth such as he hadd ...
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... meate my father giues to mee , 116 shee wishes poyson it might bee , 120 and stares me in the face : Now when shee gazeth on me soe , I wold shee might a rapp2 let goe that might ring through the place . " The old man answered then anon ...
... meate my father giues to mee , 116 shee wishes poyson it might bee , 120 and stares me in the face : Now when shee gazeth on me soe , I wold shee might a rapp2 let goe that might ring through the place . " The old man answered then anon ...
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... 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 , bidding him ...
... 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 , bidding him ...
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... Meate ; Promooters in plumbe9 broth was his first dish , his owne priuye 10 kitchen had noe 11 such meate . 12 Sixe pickeld taylors slasht 13 & cutt , With Sempsters & tire women ffitt for his pallatt , 14 With ffeathermen15 & perfumers ...
... Meate ; Promooters in plumbe9 broth was his first dish , his owne priuye 10 kitchen had noe 11 such meate . 12 Sixe pickeld taylors slasht 13 & cutt , With Sempsters & tire women ffitt for his pallatt , 14 With ffeathermen15 & perfumers ...
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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...