Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... pray you ? Was it , ' Come shepherds , deck your heads , ' or As at noon Dulcina rested ? ' & c . " Mr. Chappell gives a list of eight ballads and songs directed to be sung to this tune , and the last of them is one that shows an ...
... pray you ? Was it , ' Come shepherds , deck your heads , ' or As at noon Dulcina rested ? ' & c . " Mr. Chappell gives a list of eight ballads and songs directed to be sung to this tune , and the last of them is one that shows an ...
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... pray , sir , if a man might ask on you , how came your Captain's place first to be called the Devil's Arse ? " " Mr. Chappell prints the tune of it at p . 161 of his Popular Music , and says that other copies of the song are in the ...
... pray , sir , if a man might ask on you , how came your Captain's place first to be called the Devil's Arse ? " " Mr. Chappell prints the tune of it at p . 161 of his Popular Music , and says that other copies of the song are in the ...
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... but all in vaine I did complaine , his lacke was tyrd , heed not be hyred for all my prayers & all my teares . " ffins . One stroke of a word , pared off by the binder , follows . - F . 2 MS . my.-F. 12 16 Lye : alone : : ' [ Page.
... but all in vaine I did complaine , his lacke was tyrd , heed not be hyred for all my prayers & all my teares . " ffins . One stroke of a word , pared off by the binder , follows . - F . 2 MS . my.-F. 12 16 Lye : alone : : ' [ Page.
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... prayer , itt shalbe still that I may haue one that will worke my will ; for itt is only hee can ease me anon , & therfore Ile noe longer lye alone . 1 Wooe him first . [ G.G . ] - P . 2 But if . [ G.G . ] - P . Such is my case , I must ...
... prayer , itt shalbe still that I may haue one that will worke my will ; for itt is only hee can ease me anon , & therfore Ile noe longer lye alone . 1 Wooe him first . [ G.G . ] - P . 2 But if . [ G.G . ] - P . Such is my case , I must ...
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... enter : " nay , softly ! " quoth the Elder wench , " I pray thee lett vs goe ffrom hence ; ffor heare I am in some suspence that heare I shall not gett no Codlings . " 28 32 36 " Art thou soe ffond ? canst 82 AS IT BEFFELL ON A DAY.
... enter : " nay , softly ! " quoth the Elder wench , " I pray thee lett vs goe ffrom hence ; ffor heare I am in some suspence that heare I shall not gett no Codlings . " 28 32 36 " Art thou soe ffond ? canst 82 AS IT BEFFELL ON A DAY.
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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...