Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... sweet birds ever singing their Roundelayes , 2 Many Cupids measures And cause for true Loves pleasures , Be daned around , Let all contentment For mirth's presentment this day be found 2 : And may the grass grow ever green where we two ...
... sweet birds ever singing their Roundelayes , 2 Many Cupids measures And cause for true Loves pleasures , Be daned around , Let all contentment For mirth's presentment this day be found 2 : And may the grass grow ever green where we two ...
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... sweet hart , " quoth hee , 66 " for in faith I must be gone . " nay , then you doe me wronge , " quoth shee , to leaue me thus alone . " Away he went when all was spent , wherat shee was offended ; Like a troian true she made a vow shee ...
... sweet hart , " quoth hee , 66 " for in faith I must be gone . " nay , then you doe me wronge , " quoth shee , to leaue me thus alone . " Away he went when all was spent , wherat shee was offended ; Like a troian true she made a vow shee ...
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... sweet hart , shall I put my flesh in thine ? " " with all my hart , Sir ! your nose in my arse , " quoth she , " for to keepe out the winde . " Shee ryde vpon a tyred mare , & to reuenge noe time withstoode , I bluntlye asket pro to ...
... sweet hart , shall I put my flesh in thine ? " " with all my hart , Sir ! your nose in my arse , " quoth she , " for to keepe out the winde . " Shee ryde vpon a tyred mare , & to reuenge noe time withstoode , I bluntlye asket pro to ...
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... sweet ; unwatched , are nought . Care tempts the theft . 20 are never out of season . ffins . 1 MS . has a mark between o and h.-F. 2 ? for is that's . - F . 66 6 6 Dulcina.1 [ Page 178 of MS . · 31 THE MAN THAT HATH.
... sweet ; unwatched , are nought . Care tempts the theft . 20 are never out of season . ffins . 1 MS . has a mark between o and h.-F. 2 ? for is that's . - F . 66 6 6 Dulcina.1 [ Page 178 of MS . · 31 THE MAN THAT HATH.
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... Sweet hart , or ere wee part , — I speake itt out of pure devotion , — by yee & nay Ile not away till thou feele my spiritts motion . " Mathias , going to Amsterdam , meets his sister , and kisses her . " What would the wicked say if ...
... Sweet hart , or ere wee part , — I speake itt out of pure devotion , — by yee & nay Ile not away till thou feele my spiritts motion . " Mathias , going to Amsterdam , meets his sister , and kisses her . " What would the wicked say if ...
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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.
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Page 32 - Psalmes, or Songs of Sion, turned into the language, and set to the tunes of a strange land...