Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... PLEASURE . See the building To an excellent new Tune . Where whilst my mistris lived in Was pleasures essence , See how it droopeth And how nakedly it looketh Without her presence : 2 Every creature That appertaines to nature ' bout ...
... PLEASURE . See the building To an excellent new Tune . Where whilst my mistris lived in Was pleasures essence , See how it droopeth And how nakedly it looketh Without her presence : 2 Every creature That appertaines to nature ' bout ...
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... pleasures asseince 2 ! I see how it droopeth , & how Nakedly it looketh with - out her presence ! heearke how the ... pleasure's essence . - P . [ half a page missing . ] 3 they.-P. MS . cheesly . - F . 5 the.-P. Walking in a Meadow ...
... pleasures asseince 2 ! I see how it droopeth , & how Nakedly it looketh with - out her presence ! heearke how the ... pleasure's essence . - P . [ half a page missing . ] 3 they.-P. MS . cheesly . - F . 5 the.-P. Walking in a Meadow ...
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... pleasure ; But if that man regardless were as tho he carde not for her , tho shee were like to venus fayre , in faith I wold abhor her . If to doe good I were restrained , & to doe euill bidden , I wold be puritan , I sweare , ffor I ...
... pleasure ; But if that man regardless were as tho he carde not for her , tho shee were like to venus fayre , in faith I wold abhor her . If to doe good I were restrained , & to doe euill bidden , I wold be puritan , I sweare , ffor I ...
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... pleasure can there be more soone1 then now ? ' shee sayes , " night giues loue that leysure that the day cannott allow . " " the said kind sight forgiues delight , " quoth hee , more easilye then the moone . " 66 " In Venus playes be ...
... pleasure can there be more soone1 then now ? ' shee sayes , " night giues loue that leysure that the day cannott allow . " " the said kind sight forgiues delight , " quoth hee , more easilye then the moone . " 66 " In Venus playes be ...
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... pleasure as specimens of poetic excellence , ingenious flattery , or adroit satire . " - Ben Jonson's Works ( ed . Gifford , 1816 ) , vol . vii . p . 366 . On the text of this Metamorphosed Gipsies Gifford says in his Introduction : " A ...
... pleasure as specimens of poetic excellence , ingenious flattery , or adroit satire . " - Ben Jonson's Works ( ed . Gifford , 1816 ) , vol . vii . p . 366 . On the text of this Metamorphosed Gipsies Gifford says in his Introduction : " A ...
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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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