Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together with Some Few of Later Date, Volume 2John Nichols, 1794 - Ballads |
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... these noblemen landed in South Wales , and the royal party foon after gained the afcendant . See Holing / hed , Rapin , & c . The following is copied from a very ancient MS . in the British Mufeum . [ Harl . MSS . 2253. S. 23. ] This MS ...
... these noblemen landed in South Wales , and the royal party foon after gained the afcendant . See Holing / hed , Rapin , & c . The following is copied from a very ancient MS . in the British Mufeum . [ Harl . MSS . 2253. S. 23. ] This MS ...
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... these , And wyft it were my fond , Perkyn turnyd hym about in that ych thrang , 190 Among thos wery boyes he wrest and he wrang ; Ver . 168. The boyes were MS . V. 170. creped then about in the croft . MS . F , 189 , fand . MS , V. 179 ...
... these , And wyft it were my fond , Perkyn turnyd hym about in that ych thrang , 190 Among thos wery boyes he wrest and he wrang ; Ver . 168. The boyes were MS . V. 170. creped then about in the croft . MS . F , 189 , fand . MS , V. 179 ...
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... : we fhould have followed the latter in dividing every other line into two , but that the whole would then have taken up more room than could be allowed it in this volume . BE BE E it ryght , or wrong , these men 28 ANCIENT POEMS .
... : we fhould have followed the latter in dividing every other line into two , but that the whole would then have taken up more room than could be allowed it in this volume . BE BE E it ryght , or wrong , these men 28 ANCIENT POEMS .
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... these men among On women do complayne * ; Affyrmynge this , how that it is A labour spent in vayne , To love them wele ; for never a dele They love a man agayne : For late a man do what he can , Theyr favour to attayne , Yet , yf a newe ...
... these men among On women do complayne * ; Affyrmynge this , how that it is A labour spent in vayne , To love them wele ; for never a dele They love a man agayne : For late a man do what he can , Theyr favour to attayne , Yet , yf a newe ...
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... fyer to have her brent . There came a lazar to the kings gates , A lazar both blind and lame : I tooke the tazar upon my backę , And on her bedd had him layne . 190 195 Then Then ranne I to our comlye king , These tidings 58 ANCIENT POEMS .
... fyer to have her brent . There came a lazar to the kings gates , A lazar both blind and lame : I tooke the tazar upon my backę , And on her bedd had him layne . 190 195 Then Then ranne I to our comlye king , These tidings 58 ANCIENT POEMS .
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Page 322 - With an old study fill'd full of learned old books, With an old reverend chaplain, you might know him by his looks. With an old buttery hatch worn quite off the hooks, And an old kitchen, that maintain'd half a dozen old cooks; Like an old courtier, &c.
Page 330 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 322 - That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And 'the queen's old courtier.
Page 225 - They fought with forty thousand then Upon the bloody shore. ' Stand to it, noble pikemen, And look you round about : And shoot you right, you bow-men, And we will keep them out : You musquet and cailiver men, Do you prove true to me, I'll be the bravest man in fight,
Page 319 - And then your grace need not make any doubt, But in twenty-four hours you'll ride it about. The king he laughed, and swore by St. Jone, I did not think it could be...
Page 379 - My love, as he had not been a lover. The boy put on his robes, his robes of green, His purple vest, 'twas my ain sewing; Ah!
Page 309 - Tell zeal it lacks devotion ; Tell love it is but lust ; Tell time it is but motion ; Tell flesh it is but dust : And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.
Page 148 - The like was never scene. Most curiously that bower was built Of stone and timber strong, An hundered and fifty doors Did to this bower belong : And they so cunninglye contriv'd With turnings round about, That none but with a clue of thread, Could enter in or out.
Page 85 - With horne, and eke with bowe ; To Drayton Basset he tooke his waye, With all his lordes a rowe. And he had ridden ore dale and downe By eight of clocke in the day, When he was ware of a bold tanner, Come ryding along the waye.
Page 321 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...