Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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... woman nor this fryer , 5 nor any other creature heere . " he answered him anon , " Iacke , I to thee my promise plight , 500 in thy defence I mean to fight , & will oppose thy fone . " " 504 1 sat upon.-P. Iacke ceast his pipes : then ...
... woman nor this fryer , 5 nor any other creature heere . " he answered him anon , " Iacke , I to thee my promise plight , 500 in thy defence I mean to fight , & will oppose thy fone . " " 504 1 sat upon.-P. Iacke ceast his pipes : then ...
Page 29
... woman profered me a bagge , & 40tye . cattell more , to stay & giue her belly but a swagge . A pox on the whore , they were but scrapps that I supposed was single monye ; the cattell had lice , or else perhapps I had light and tooke her ...
... woman profered me a bagge , & 40tye . cattell more , to stay & giue her belly but a swagge . A pox on the whore , they were but scrapps that I supposed was single monye ; the cattell had lice , or else perhapps I had light and tooke her ...
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... woman in Walton's ' Angler ' says , ' What song was it , I 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 ...
... woman in Walton's ' Angler ' says , ' What song was it , I 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 ...
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... women ffitt for his pallatt , 14 With ffeathermen15 & perfumers put Some 12 in a charger , to make a graue 16 sallett . Yett thoe with this hee much was taken , Upon a sudden hee shifted his trencher , & soone 17 he spyed the Baude ...
... women ffitt for his pallatt , 14 With ffeathermen15 & perfumers put Some 12 in a charger , to make a graue 16 sallett . Yett thoe with this hee much was taken , Upon a sudden hee shifted his trencher , & soone 17 he spyed the Baude ...
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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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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...