Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4N. Trübner, 1867 - 127 pages |
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Page 32
... ballad that Mr. Chappell has found is " in the registers of the Stationers ' Company , under the date of May 22 , 1615 , [ where ] there is an entry transferring the right of publication from one printer to another , and it is described ...
... ballad that Mr. Chappell has found is " in the registers of the Stationers ' Company , under the date of May 22 , 1615 , [ where ] there is an entry transferring the right of publication from one printer to another , and it is described ...
Page 35
... ballads of this kind extant , about Puritans and holy sisters . They were a favourite topic with the Cavaliers , more especially after the Puritans came into power . - W . C. 12 16 It was a puritanicall ladd that was called Mathyas ...
... ballads of this kind extant , about Puritans and holy sisters . They were a favourite topic with the Cavaliers , more especially after the Puritans came into power . - W . C. 12 16 It was a puritanicall ladd that was called Mathyas ...
Page 37
... Ballad is in the Roxburghe Collection , ii . 445. Percy's reference to Dryden's Miscellanies is to the fourth edi- tion of 1716 , where Cook Laurel is called " A Song on the Devil's Arse of the Peak . By Ben Jonson . " It is reprinted ...
... Ballad is in the Roxburghe Collection , ii . 445. Percy's reference to Dryden's Miscellanies is to the fourth edi- tion of 1716 , where Cook Laurel is called " A Song on the Devil's Arse of the Peak . By Ben Jonson . " It is reprinted ...
Page 39
... Ballads , and , with music , in Pills to purge Melancholy . Also that " in S. Rowland's Martin Markhall , his defence and answer to the Bellman of London , 1610 , is a list of rogues by profession , in which Cock Lorrel stands second ...
... Ballads , and , with music , in Pills to purge Melancholy . Also that " in S. Rowland's Martin Markhall , his defence and answer to the Bellman of London , 1610 , is a list of rogues by profession , in which Cock Lorrel stands second ...
Page 77
... ballad on the knights of £ 40 per annum made by James I. ( in Wit and Wisdom , Shaksp . Soc . 1846 , p . 146-7 ) the shepherds are jestingly told to Above all other felts , Russian , Spanish , French , give me the English beaver ! Cast ...
... ballad on the knights of £ 40 per annum made by James I. ( in Wit and Wisdom , Shaksp . Soc . 1846 , p . 146-7 ) the shepherds are jestingly told to Above all other felts , Russian , Spanish , French , give me the English beaver ! Cast ...
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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...