Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... friar , in spite of his pre- cautions , is much damaged . Jack passes into the street with his dancers . The neighbours join the rout , even sick folks , and undressed , 6 A wicket , or half - door . Halliwell's Gloss . - F . ' they.-P ...
... friar , in spite of his pre- cautions , is much damaged . Jack passes into the street with his dancers . The neighbours join the rout , even sick folks , and undressed , 6 A wicket , or half - door . Halliwell's Gloss . - F . ' they.-P ...
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... friar summons Jack to appear before the official . " 6 1 out.-P. 384 Straight forth thé 2 start thorrow dores & kockes , 3 some in their shirts , some in their smockes , & some starke belly naked . When all were gathered round about ...
... friar summons Jack to appear before the official . " 6 1 out.-P. 384 Straight forth thé 2 start thorrow dores & kockes , 3 some in their shirts , some in their smockes , & some starke belly naked . When all were gathered round about ...
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... friar steps forward , and accuses Jack of witchcraft ; Of contractes , and of lak of sacraments , And eek of many another [ maner ] cryme Which needith not to reherse at this tyme . Canterbury Tales , ed . Morris , v . 2 , p . 246 , 1 ...
... friar steps forward , and accuses Jack of witchcraft ; Of contractes , and of lak of sacraments , And eek of many another [ maner ] cryme Which needith not to reherse at this tyme . Canterbury Tales , ed . Morris , v . 2 , p . 246 , 1 ...
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... friar tells of Jack's pipe , and raises the official's curiosity , The wiffe that feared another cracke , 440 stood mute , & neere a word shee spake ; shame put her in such dread . " Ha ! " said the fryer right angerlye , " knaue ! this ...
... friar tells of Jack's pipe , and raises the official's curiosity , The wiffe that feared another cracke , 440 stood mute , & neere a word shee spake ; shame put her in such dread . " Ha ! " said the fryer right angerlye , " knaue ! this ...
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... friar . The Register's ink - born swings about banefully . Proctors and somners hop madly . 8 i.e. at a good rate.-P. Cp . our " a good ' un . " - F . 9 worldly . - P . 10 daunst . - P . At last the official begs the boy to give over ...
... friar . The Register's ink - born swings about banefully . Proctors and somners hop madly . 8 i.e. at a good rate.-P. Cp . our " a good ' un . " - F . 9 worldly . - P . 10 daunst . - P . At last the official begs the boy to give over ...
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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.
Page 77 - We weare more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted ; which hath given occasion to the Venetian, and other Italians, to brand the Englishman with a notable mark of levity, by painting him stark naked, with a pair of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vain conception of his brain-sick head, not to comeliness and decorum.
Page 32 - Psalmes, or Songs of Sion, turned into the language, and set to the tunes of a strange land...