Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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Page 50
... Ah ha ! fyee , fye ! itt comes yett still ! itt comes , I , I ! doe what you will ! my breath doth passe , my blood doth trickle ! was euer lasse in such a pickle ? ffins . A maid & a younge man . [ Page 197 50 DOE YOU MEANE .
... Ah ha ! fyee , fye ! itt comes yett still ! itt comes , I , I ! doe what you will ! my breath doth passe , my blood doth trickle ! was euer lasse in such a pickle ? ffins . A maid & a younge man . [ Page 197 50 DOE YOU MEANE .
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... meane for to liue by your trade , if you scorne to kisse , 44 48 then keepe a pretty mayd ! for drinke is not worth a lowse if lasses there be none ! I wold drinke a whole carrouse that Iynye were here againe ! [ page 288 ] ffins ...
... meane for to liue by your trade , if you scorne to kisse , 44 48 then keepe a pretty mayd ! for drinke is not worth a lowse if lasses there be none ! I wold drinke a whole carrouse that Iynye were here againe ! [ page 288 ] ffins ...
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... meane to gratiffye by all the meanes I may , & moue delight in euery wight that with affection stay . Some thought to proue wherin I shold these seuerall humors please , the which to doe , reason fforbidds , lest I shold some displease ...
... meane to gratiffye by all the meanes I may , & moue delight in euery wight that with affection stay . Some thought to proue wherin I shold these seuerall humors please , the which to doe , reason fforbidds , lest I shold some displease ...
Page 119
... meane to ouerthrow me ? Downe sate the shepeard swaine I cannot be contented • I dreamed my loue lay in her bedd In a May morning I mett a sweet nursse It was a puritanicall ladd · It was a younge man that dwelt in a towne Itt was a man ...
... meane to ouerthrow me ? Downe sate the shepeard swaine I cannot be contented • I dreamed my loue lay in her bedd In a May morning I mett a sweet nursse It was a puritanicall ladd · It was a younge man that dwelt in a towne Itt was a man ...
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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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