Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... sayd ? heyda ! heyda ! heyda ! heyda ! you will neuer leaue till I be paide . ” 66 " O Iolly Robin , doe thy worst ! thou canst not make my belly burst . I pray thee leaue thy fooling : heyda ! " " by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda ...
... sayd ? heyda ! heyda ! heyda ! heyda ! you will neuer leaue till I be paide . ” 66 " O Iolly Robin , doe thy worst ! thou canst not make my belly burst . I pray thee leaue thy fooling : heyda ! " " by my faith & troth I cannot : heyda ...
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... sayd the wiffe in verament , " husband , therto I giue consent , for that I thinke it neede . " On the Morrow when it was day , the litle boy went on his way vnto the feild 5 with speede . Off noe man hee tooke anye care , 6 but song ...
... sayd the wiffe in verament , " husband , therto I giue consent , for that I thinke it neede . " On the Morrow when it was day , the litle boy went on his way vnto the feild 5 with speede . Off noe man hee tooke anye care , 6 but song ...
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... sayd " goe to gladlie . ” 76 The old man easie was to please , he eate7 & made himselfe att ease , saying , " sonne , god amercye ! [ page 98. ] " Sonne , " he sayd , " thou hast giuen meate to me , ' 80 & I will giue 3 things to thee ...
... sayd " goe to gladlie . ” 76 The old man easie was to please , he eate7 & made himselfe att ease , saying , " sonne , god amercye ! [ page 98. ] " Sonne , " he sayd , " thou hast giuen meate to me , ' 80 & I will giue 3 things to thee ...
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... sayd before . " The boy then smiling , answere made , " I haue enough for my pore trade , I will desire noe more . " The old man sayd , " my troth is plight , thou shalt haue all I thee behight 10 ; say on now , let me see . " " Att ...
... sayd before . " The boy then smiling , answere made , " I haue enough for my pore trade , I will desire noe more . " The old man sayd , " my troth is plight , thou shalt haue all I thee behight 10 ; say on now , let me see . " " Att ...
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... sayd hee . When it grew neere vpon1o the night , Iacke , well prepared , 11 hied home full right ; - itt was his ordinance ; - 136 And as he went his pipe did blow , the whilest his cattell on a row about him gan to 12 dance ; 1 stareth ...
... sayd hee . When it grew neere vpon1o the night , Iacke , well prepared , 11 hied home full right ; - itt was his ordinance ; - 136 And as he went his pipe did blow , the whilest his cattell on a row about him gan to 12 dance ; 1 stareth ...
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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...