Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... woman , mistris , 14 chambermaid , coachman , 14 knight , Lord & visher , groome 15 & yeaman ; where first the ffeend with his forke did light . All which devowred , he now for to close doth for a 16 draught of Derbye ale call . he ...
... woman , mistris , 14 chambermaid , coachman , 14 knight , Lord & visher , groome 15 & yeaman ; where first the ffeend with his forke did light . All which devowred , he now for to close doth for a 16 draught of Derbye ale call . he ...
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... to undo a silly maid ? How wrong of that woman to put me in here ! What noise is that ? No matter . Babies tell their own stories . 12 16 20 20 24 camot in MS.-F. Never mind . Come on again . 28 32 32 49 DOE YOU MEANE ·
... to undo a silly maid ? How wrong of that woman to put me in here ! What noise is that ? No matter . Babies tell their own stories . 12 16 20 20 24 camot in MS.-F. Never mind . Come on again . 28 32 32 49 DOE YOU MEANE ·
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... womans 7 case like mine ? att 15 yeeres [ I ] began to pine ; soe vnto this plight now I am growne , I can , nor will , noe longer Lye alone.8 9 If dreames be true , then Ride I can ; I lacke nothing but a man , for tis onlye hee can ...
... womans 7 case like mine ? att 15 yeeres [ I ] began to pine ; soe vnto this plight now I am growne , I can , nor will , noe longer Lye alone.8 9 If dreames be true , then Ride I can ; I lacke nothing but a man , for tis onlye hee can ...
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... woman had tumbled the clothes soe that her buttockes all lay bare , which by a glimering light that was in that same place , Panch soone espyed , & tooke the same to be his wiues sweet face . Frumenty or Furmety , a kind of Potage made ...
... woman had tumbled the clothes soe that her buttockes all lay bare , which by a glimering light that was in that same place , Panch soone espyed , & tooke the same to be his wiues sweet face . Frumenty or Furmety , a kind of Potage made ...
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... 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 them att all , but supp them vp presentlye . " take heed & c ...
... 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 them att all , but supp them vp presentlye . " take heed & c ...
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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...