Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... vnto my songe , or tend vnto my talle1 ! The rhyme every where requires that it should be written or pronounced FRERE , as in Chaucer . - P . In our earliest Rhyming Dictionary , Levins's Manipulus , 1570 , under the words in eare , are ...
... vnto my songe , or tend vnto my talle1 ! The rhyme every where requires that it should be written or pronounced FRERE , as in Chaucer . - P . In our earliest Rhyming Dictionary , Levins's Manipulus , 1570 , under the words in eare , are ...
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... Vnto the man the wiffe gan say , " I wold you wold puts this boy awaye , & that right soone in haste ; 28 Trulie he is a cursed ladde 9 ! I wold some other man him hade that wold him better chast . 10 " Then said the goodman , " dame ...
... Vnto the man the wiffe gan say , " I wold you wold puts this boy awaye , & that right soone in haste ; 28 Trulie he is a cursed ladde 9 ! I wold some other man him hade that wold him better chast . 10 " Then said the goodman , " dame ...
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... vnto the feild 5 with speede . Off noe man hee tooke anye care , 6 but song " hey ho ! away the Mare ?! " much mirth he did pursue ; fforth hee went with might & maine vntill he came vnto 10 the plaine , where he his 11 dinner drew ...
... vnto the feild 5 with speede . Off noe man hee tooke anye care , 6 but song " hey ho ! away the Mare ?! " much mirth he did pursue ; fforth hee went with might & maine vntill he came vnto 10 the plaine , where he his 11 dinner drew ...
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... vnto scorne . Soe , farwell sonne ! " the old man cryed ; god keepe you , Sir ! " the boy replyed , " I take my leaue of thee ! God , that blest of all things , may 8 keepe thee save both night & day ! " " gramercy , sonne ! " sayd hee ...
... vnto scorne . Soe , farwell sonne ! " the old man cryed ; god keepe you , Sir ! " the boy replyed , " I take my leaue of thee ! God , that blest of all things , may 8 keepe thee save both night & day ! " " gramercy , sonne ! " sayd hee ...
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... vnto his fathers hall5 he gooes . His ffather att his supper sate , & litle Iacke espyed well thatt , and said to him anon , 148 " father , all day I kept your neate , [ page 99. ] at night I pray you giue me some meate , I am hungrye ...
... vnto his fathers hall5 he gooes . His ffather att his supper sate , & litle Iacke espyed well thatt , and said to him anon , 148 " father , all day I kept your neate , [ page 99. ] at night I pray you giue me some meate , I am hungrye ...
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