Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume: From the 13th to the 19th Century, Volume 27Frederick William Fairholt Percy Society, 1849 - 267 pages |
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... OF THE WORLD NOW-A DAVES . .64 ANE SUPPLICATION, DIRECTIT FROME SCHIR DAVID LTNDKSAT, KNICHT, TO THE KINGIS GRACE, IN CONTEMPTION OF RYDE TAILLIS, AND MUSSALIT FACES . . fifl A UOSSEN OF POINTS, SKNT BY A GENTLEWOMAN TO HtiR.
... OF THE WORLD NOW-A DAVES . .64 ANE SUPPLICATION, DIRECTIT FROME SCHIR DAVID LTNDKSAT, KNICHT, TO THE KINGIS GRACE, IN CONTEMPTION OF RYDE TAILLIS, AND MUSSALIT FACES . . fifl A UOSSEN OF POINTS, SKNT BY A GENTLEWOMAN TO HtiR.
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... MANER OF THE WORLD NOW - A - DAYES 64 ANE SUPPLICATION , DIRECTIT FROME SCHIR DAVID LYNDESAY , KNICHT , TO THE KINGIS GRACE , IN CONTEMPTION OF SYDE TAILLIS , AND MUSSALIT FACES 69 A DOSSEN OF POINTS , SENT BY A GENTLEWOMAN TO.
... MANER OF THE WORLD NOW - A - DAYES 64 ANE SUPPLICATION , DIRECTIT FROME SCHIR DAVID LYNDESAY , KNICHT , TO THE KINGIS GRACE , IN CONTEMPTION OF SYDE TAILLIS , AND MUSSALIT FACES 69 A DOSSEN OF POINTS , SENT BY A GENTLEWOMAN TO.
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... Taillis , and Mussalit faces . SIR David Lyndesay of the Mount , Lord Lyon king - at - arms , was born , says Chalmers , probably about 1490 , and was alive in 1555 , but he believes he died about 1557 , though some say he lived till ...
... Taillis , and Mussalit faces . SIR David Lyndesay of the Mount , Lord Lyon king - at - arms , was born , says Chalmers , probably about 1490 , and was alive in 1555 , but he believes he died about 1557 , though some say he lived till ...
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... taillis to sweep the caisay clene ; The dust upskaillis mony a fillock . ' Lyndesay seems to have had his eye on this sumptuary satire of Dunbar , when he sat down to pen his ' Supplication against Syde Taillis . ' Yet , did our poet ...
... taillis to sweep the caisay clene ; The dust upskaillis mony a fillock . ' Lyndesay seems to have had his eye on this sumptuary satire of Dunbar , when he sat down to pen his ' Supplication against Syde Taillis . ' Yet , did our poet ...
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... taillis sall nocht your hippes hyde . ' The Supplication against Syde Taillis ' seems to have been written during the year 1538. " SCHIR , thocht your grace hes put gret ordour , Baith in the hieland , and the bordour ; * Yit mak I ...
... taillis sall nocht your hippes hyde . ' The Supplication against Syde Taillis ' seems to have been written during the year 1538. " SCHIR , thocht your grace hes put gret ordour , Baith in the hieland , and the bordour ; * Yit mak I ...
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alluded ballad band baselard beard beau beauty bien Bishop of Paris Blew-cap blist be ye bouncing hoop'd petticoats breeches cloak cloth costume curious curls dame Donald doth dress face fair fantastick fashion frae gloves gold gorget grace Greensleeves gret hair hang hath head head-dress Heer's hood hoop horns hose J'ai JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL JAMES PRIOR king lace ladies lass loley lolye Macaroni maids Mattam monsterous petticoats muffetees n'est newfangilnes of geir nocht Percy Society piez pinner poem poet powder pray pride printed prodom quhen reign reprinted ribbon Riding-hood Robert Henrysoun round Roxburghe Ballads satire Sawe I never shew shoes silk song stanza suld syde tail taillis Tailyeouris and sowtaris tell thair thay thee There's thing Troly Twas waist wald wear whate're it bee wigs women worn wouldest not love wyde wyfes wyfis
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Page 91 - twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
Page 86 - Greensleeves? Alas, my love, ye do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
Page 250 - Ten yards of gay ribbon to deck her sweet skull, And gauze to encompass it round.
Page 130 - I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musinge in my mynde, what rayment I shall were, For now I will were this, and now I will were that, Now I will were I cannot tell what.
Page 160 - What creature's this ? with his short hairs, His little band, and huge long ears, That this new faith has founded ? The Puritans were never such, The saints themselves had ns'er so much, — Oh such a knave's a Roundhead...
Page 70 - She works religious petticoats,^) for flowers She'll make church-histories. Her needle doth So sanctify my cushionets: besides My smock-sleeves have such holy embroideries And are so learned, that I fear in time All my apparel will be quoted by Some pure instructor.
Page 89 - My gayest gelding I thee gave, To ride wherever liked thee ; No lady ever was so brave, And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Page 250 - Let her flags fly behind for a yard at the least, • Let her curls meet just under her chin, Let these curls be supported, to keep up the jest, With an hundred — instead of one pin. Let her gown be tuck'd up to the hip on each side, Shoes too high for to walk or to jump, And to deck the sweet creature complete for a bride Let the cork cutter make her a rump.
Page 90 - Thou couldst desire no earthly thing But still thou hadst it readily; Thy music still to play and sing, And yet thou wouldst not love me. Greensleeves was all my joy, &c.
Page 50 - Hir sark suld be hir body nixt, Of chestetie so quhyt, With schame and dreid togidder mixt, The same suld be perfyt. Hir kirtill suld be of clene constance, Lasit with lesum1 lufe, The mailyheis 2 of continuance For nevir to remufe.