Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... copy known to us of this capital story . Wynkyn de Worde's , reprinted ( with collations ) by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt ( " Early Popular Poetry , " v . 3 , p . 54–81 ) , runs with it , though less smoothly , to 1. 456 , but there suddenly ...
... copy known to us of this capital story . Wynkyn de Worde's , reprinted ( with collations ) by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt ( " Early Popular Poetry , " v . 3 , p . 54–81 ) , runs with it , though less smoothly , to 1. 456 , but there suddenly ...
Page 13
... bids him choose his third pre- sent . be- 10 behight , printed copy , behett ; hight , behote , promittere , vovere , pro- missus , pollicitus . - P . The boy wishes that whenever his step- mother stares spitefully B 2 FRYAR AND BOYE . 13.
... bids him choose his third pre- sent . be- 10 behight , printed copy , behett ; hight , behote , promittere , vovere , pro- missus , pollicitus . - P . The boy wishes that whenever his step- mother stares spitefully B 2 FRYAR AND BOYE . 13.
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... copy.-P. 3 blin , cessare , desinere , desistere.- Lye.-P. 4 unto.-P. 5 let me hear.-P. 8 piped him a.—P. and , when Jack comes home , calls him to account for his doings . Wishes himself to hear the pipe . At his own request the friar ...
... copy.-P. 3 blin , cessare , desinere , desistere.- Lye.-P. 4 unto.-P. 5 let me hear.-P. 8 piped him a.—P. and , when Jack comes home , calls him to account for his doings . Wishes himself to hear the pipe . At his own request the friar ...
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... F . • 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 .
... F . • 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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... copy contains eight more stanzas than Jonson's own MS . printed by Gifford , and ( after him ) by Mr. Procter at p . 626 of his edition of Jonson's Works . The presence of these additional stanzas may be explained by Gifford's remarks ...
... copy contains eight more stanzas than Jonson's own MS . printed by Gifford , and ( after him ) by Mr. Procter at p . 626 of his edition of Jonson's Works . The presence of these additional stanzas may be explained by Gifford's remarks ...
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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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