Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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Page 37
... sweet songster , and would have done rarely in a cage , with a dish of water and hemp - seed ! a fine breast of his own ! " Gifford also says : " This song ' continued long in favour . It is mentioned with praise not only by the poets ...
... sweet songster , and would have done rarely in a cage , with a dish of water and hemp - seed ! a fine breast of his own ! " Gifford also says : " This song ' continued long in favour . It is mentioned with praise not only by the poets ...
Page 48
... sweet . 32 " Now you haue enioyed the Measure of pleasure , indeed I [ ' m ] destroyed if you speake of it againe ; for women doe proue neclected , reiected , when freedome of love is known to other men . Now you haue enioyed me , & all ...
... sweet . 32 " Now you haue enioyed the Measure of pleasure , indeed I [ ' m ] destroyed if you speake of it againe ; for women doe proue neclected , reiected , when freedome of love is known to other men . Now you haue enioyed me , & all ...
Page 64
... sweet face . Frumenty or Furmety , a kind of Potage made of prepared Wheat , Milk , Sugar , Spice , & c . Phillipps . " Still a favorite dish in the north , consisting of [ page 240 ] hulled wheat boiled in milk and sea- soned . It was ...
... sweet face . Frumenty or Furmety , a kind of Potage made of prepared Wheat , Milk , Sugar , Spice , & c . Phillipps . " Still a favorite dish in the north , consisting of [ page 240 ] hulled wheat boiled in milk and sea- soned . It was ...
Page 65
... sweet wiff , I haue brought some furmitree for thee ! " the woman ffisled1 : " nay , blow not , " quoth hee , " for cold enough they bee . " with that shee puffed againe , & made him angrye bee : “ I tell thee , thou need not to blow ...
... sweet wiff , I haue brought some furmitree for thee ! " the woman ffisled1 : " nay , blow not , " quoth hee , " for cold enough they bee . " with that shee puffed againe , & made him angrye bee : “ I tell thee , thou need not to blow ...
Page 73
... of strife , wives ' joy . My dainty dames , don't be offended with me ! 100 with this sweet god . he feuds appeaseth . Qu.-P. ffins . 2 you think no.-P. I wished a babe in a nurse's arms was mine WHEN SCORTCHING PHOEBUS . 73.
... of strife , wives ' joy . My dainty dames , don't be offended with me ! 100 with this sweet god . he feuds appeaseth . Qu.-P. ffins . 2 you think no.-P. I wished a babe in a nurse's arms was mine WHEN SCORTCHING PHOEBUS . 73.
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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...