Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... night & day ! " " gramercy , sonne ! " sayd hee . When it grew neere vpon 10 the night , Iacke , well prepared , 11 hied home full right ; - itt was his ordinance ; - 136 And as he went his pipe did blow , the whilest his cattell on a ...
... night & day ! " " gramercy , sonne ! " sayd hee . When it grew neere vpon 10 the night , Iacke , well prepared , 11 hied home full right ; - itt was his ordinance ; - 136 And as he went his pipe did blow , the whilest his cattell on a ...
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... night I pray you giue me some meate , I am hungrye , by Saint Iohn ! " Meateless I haue lyen all the day , 152 & kept your beasts , they did not stray ; 156 My dinner was but ill . " His father tooke a Capon9 winge , & at the boy 10 he ...
... night I pray you giue me some meate , I am hungrye , by Saint Iohn ! " Meateless I haue lyen all the day , 152 & kept your beasts , they did not stray ; 156 My dinner was but ill . " His father tooke a Capon9 winge , & at the boy 10 he ...
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... night nor day 8 thy geere is not to borrow . " Now afterwards , as you shall heare , Vnto the house there came a fryar , & lay there all the night . 184 The wiffe this fryer loued as a Saint , 9 & to him made a great complaint of Iackes ...
... night nor day 8 thy geere is not to borrow . " Now afterwards , as you shall heare , Vnto the house there came a fryar , & lay there all the night . 184 The wiffe this fryer loued as a Saint , 9 & to him made a great complaint of Iackes ...
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... night , 308 Iacke the boy came home full right as he was wont to doo ; 312 316 320 324 But when he came into the hall , full soone his father did him call , 66 & bad him come him too : 66 ' Boy , " he said , come tell me heare , 5 what ...
... night , 308 Iacke the boy came home full right as he was wont to doo ; 312 316 320 324 But when he came into the hall , full soone his father did him call , 66 & bad him come him too : 66 ' Boy , " he said , come tell me heare , 5 what ...
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... night giues loue that leysure that the day cannott allow . " " the said kind sight forgiues delight , " quoth hee , more easilye then the moone . " 66 " In Venus playes be bold , " shee sayes , " fforgoe me & c . " 1 to say.-P. 2 The e ...
... night giues loue that leysure that the day cannott allow . " " the said kind sight forgiues delight , " quoth hee , more easilye then the moone . " 66 " In Venus playes be bold , " shee sayes , " fforgoe me & c . " 1 to say.-P. 2 The e ...
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