Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... pray thee leaue thy fooling : heyda ! " " by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda , fie ! ” " what ? doe you meane to vse me soe ? I pray thee Robin let me goe : heyda , fye ! " " what a deale of doe is heere , is heere , is heere ! " " I ...
... pray thee leaue thy fooling : heyda ! " " by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda , fie ! ” " what ? doe you meane to vse me soe ? I pray thee Robin let me goe : heyda , fye ! " " what a deale of doe is heere , is heere , is heere ! " " I ...
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... pray you giue me some 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 ...
... pray you giue me some 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 ...
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... pray , lay on & doe not spare . ” Early next morne the boy arose , & to the field full soone he goes , his cattell ... prayed him.-P. He is a witch , qth.-P. 5 dele then.-P. 8 6 he came too.-P. 7 And ran.-P. upon the land.-P. 9 quite ...
... pray , lay on & doe not spare . ” Early next morne the boy arose , & to the field full soone he goes , his cattell ... prayed him.-P. He is a witch , qth.-P. 5 dele then.-P. 8 6 he came too.-P. 7 And ran.-P. upon the land.-P. 9 quite ...
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... pray thee , boy , now7 quiett sitt ; in faith this was the Merryest fitt I heard this 7 yeere . ” All those that dancing thither came , laught heartilye & made good game , yett some gott many a fall . 400 " Thou cursed boy ! " cryed out ...
... pray thee , boy , now7 quiett sitt ; in faith this was the Merryest fitt I heard this 7 yeere . ” All those that dancing thither came , laught heartilye & made good game , yett some gott many a fall . 400 " Thou cursed boy ! " cryed out ...
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... pray , good Sir , for shee can hardlye goe . " I milder grew , & wold but feele : She said she was neuer felt , but kist ; I was content , & shee said , " weele , youst kisse bum & feele my my fist . " I was red & pale with shame ...
... pray , good Sir , for shee can hardlye goe . " I milder grew , & wold but feele : She said she was neuer felt , but kist ; I was content , & shee said , " weele , youst kisse bum & feele my my fist . " I was red & pale with shame ...
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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...