Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... tune , " and with six more lines in each 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 ...
... tune , " and with six more lines in each 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 ...
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... tune of this song was adopted for other songs . " See my mistress's house ! It is desolate in her absence . See the garden where we have loved , the arbour where we kissed , and the groves ! Blessings on them ; and on the grass where we ...
... tune of this song was adopted for other songs . " See my mistress's house ! It is desolate in her absence . See the garden where we have loved , the arbour where we kissed , and the groves ! Blessings on them ; and on the grass where we ...
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... tune of And yet methinks I love thee , " a copy of which is in the Roxburghe Col- lection , I. 412. The subject of each is two lovers ; both poems . are in nearly the same metre , and begin with the same line . The difference is in the ...
... tune of And yet methinks I love thee , " a copy of which is in the Roxburghe Col- lection , I. 412. The subject of each is two lovers ; both poems . are in nearly the same metre , and begin with the same line . The difference is in the ...
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... tune is printed under the title of the burden " O doe not , doe not kill me yet , " in J. J. Starter's " Boertigheden , " Amsterdam , 4to , 1634 , with a Dutch song written to the tune . This proves that the popularity of the song had ...
... tune is printed under the title of the burden " O doe not , doe not kill me yet , " in J. J. Starter's " Boertigheden , " Amsterdam , 4to , 1634 , with a Dutch song written to the tune . This proves that the popularity of the song had ...
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... tune of Forgoe me nowe , come to me soone , " the burden of the present ballad : ( " Pop . Music , " v . 2. p . 771 ) . At v . 1. p . 143 the tune is given ; it is to be played cheerfully . " The earlier title of the tune seems to have ...
... tune of Forgoe me nowe , come to me soone , " the burden of the present ballad : ( " Pop . Music , " v . 2. p . 771 ) . At v . 1. p . 143 the tune is given ; it is to be played cheerfully . " The earlier title of the tune seems to have ...
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