Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... stanza . We quote it here for contrast sake . A WELL - WISHING TO A PLACE OF 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 ...
... stanza . We quote it here for contrast sake . A WELL - WISHING TO A PLACE OF 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 ...
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... stanzas , and ends the story with six four - line stanzas , a circumstance not noticed by Mr. Hazlitt . The present copy either wants half a stanza after 1. 495 , or a stanza of 9 lines is given at 1. 493-501 , as in stanzas of four ...
... stanzas , and ends the story with six four - line stanzas , a circumstance not noticed by Mr. Hazlitt . The present copy either wants half a stanza after 1. 495 , or a stanza of 9 lines is given at 1. 493-501 , as in stanzas of four ...
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... stanza above- Whilom there was dwellyng in my countre An erchedeken , a man of gret degre , That boldely did execucioun In punyschyng of fornicacioun , Of wicchecraft , and eek of bauderye , Of diffamacioun , and avoutrie , Of chirche ...
... stanza above- Whilom there was dwellyng in my countre An erchedeken , a man of gret degre , That boldely did execucioun In punyschyng of fornicacioun , Of wicchecraft , and eek of bauderye , Of diffamacioun , and avoutrie , Of chirche ...
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... • MS . pared away , read by Percy . - F . [ page 104. ] Half a stanza seems wanting here and in Pr . Copy.-P. 5 frere . - P . 7 fone , i . e . foes.-P. cast.-P. 8 frere . - P . 8 12 16 20 24 As I was ridinge by 28 FRYAR AND BOYE .
... • MS . pared away , read by Percy . - F . [ page 104. ] Half a stanza seems wanting here and in Pr . Copy.-P. 5 frere . - P . 7 fone , i . e . foes.-P. cast.-P. 8 frere . - P . 8 12 16 20 24 As I was ridinge by 28 FRYAR AND BOYE .
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... stanzas than Jonson's own MS . printed by Gifford , and ( after him ) by Mr. Procter at p . 626 of his edition of Jonson's ... stanza before them . This poem is not in the original edition of the Mis- cellanies , Part II . , in 1685.-F ...
... stanzas than Jonson's own MS . printed by Gifford , and ( after him ) by Mr. Procter at p . 626 of his edition of Jonson's ... stanza before them . This poem is not in the original edition of the Mis- cellanies , Part II . , in 1685.-F ...
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