A Book of Roxburghe BalladsJohn Payne Collier |
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abuſe againſt alſo ballad becauſe beſt broadfide Bulls Feather cauſe deare death defire dery doth elſe Engliſh fafe faid fair fame farewel father fatire fhall fhee fhew fifters filk fing FINIS firſt fong fonne foone forrow friends ftanza ftill fuch fung fure fweet gallant Gipfies grief Hall ftands empty hath heart houſe huſband John Heywood kiffe laſt likewiſe live London Lord Lord Francis Egerton maſter merry Monmouth Cap moſt muſt never night paſt pleaſant pleaſe pleaſure poore praiſe preſent printed publiſhed purſe quoth reaſon reſt ſaid ſay ſecond ſee ſeems Shakeſpeare ſhall ſhe ſhee ſhould ſhow ſmall ſome ſpeake ſpend ſpent ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood ſtore ſtreet ſuch ſweare ſweet thee There's theſe they'le Thomas Deloney thoſe thou thouſand true love Tune unto uſe Watling Street Welladay whatere it bee Whoſe wife
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Page 138 - Let the world slide, let the world go : A fig for care, and a fig for woe ! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
Page 12 - I gone without regard, Whereas great men, by flockes, there be flowne, There be flown, there be flown, there be flowne, to London-ward. Where they in pomp and pleasure doe waste That which Christmas was wonted to feast, Welladay ! Houses where musicke was wont for to ring, Nothing but Batts and Howlets doe sing ; Welladay...
Page 272 - Then if you take heed not, free me from the curse, Who both give you warning, for, and the cutpurse. Youth, youth, thou hadst better been starved by thy nurse, Than live to be hanged for cutting a purse.
Page xvi - Boords breuiary of health. What shoold I rehearz heer, what a bunch of ballets & songs all auncient : Az Broom broom on hil. So wo iz me begon, troly lo. Ouer a whinny Meg. Hey ding a ding. Bony lass vpon a green. My bony on gaue me a bek.
Page xvii - Robin, lende me thy bowe, thy bowe, Robin the bow, Robin, lende to me thy bow a. There was a Mayde come out of Kent, Deintie...
Page 26 - And all my neighbours can tell, I want both money and clothes, And yet I live wondrous well. I have a contented mind, And a heart to bear out all ; Though fortune, being unkind, Hath given me substance small.
Page xvii - Tom a Lin and his wife, and his wives mother, They went over the bridge, all three together; The bridge was broken, and they fell in, The Devill go with all, quoth Tom a Lin.
Page 29 - But, if they are caught i' th' action, They are carried away in disgrace, Either to the House of Correction, Or else to a worser place. O, fie on these pilfering...
Page 106 - Clean to forsake her country and her kinsfolks all, And for to follow her true love, To bide all chance that might befall. The night is gone, and the day is come, And in the morning very early she did rise : She gets her down in a lower room, Where sundrie seamen she espies.
Page 212 - He is counted but a gull. The players on the Bankside, The round Globe and the Swan, Will teach you idle tricks of love, But the Bull will play the man.