Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 22Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... courtiers chat and bable , They boste their sinnes , and ever be unstable , After their pleasour , then to the olde adewe , Then be they busy to purvay for a newe . This knowe all wemen , some by experience , So fewe to courtiers geve ...
... courtiers chat and bable , They boste their sinnes , and ever be unstable , After their pleasour , then to the olde adewe , Then be they busy to purvay for a newe . This knowe all wemen , some by experience , So fewe to courtiers geve ...
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... courtiers lives make there conclusion , And where they be knowen of neither man or wife , Oft time courtiers there ende their wretched life ; Then shall the hostler be their executour , Or suche other ribaude shall that was his devour ...
... courtiers lives make there conclusion , And where they be knowen of neither man or wife , Oft time courtiers there ende their wretched life ; Then shall the hostler be their executour , Or suche other ribaude shall that was his devour ...
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Percy Society. What shall I common the pensivenes and payne Of courtiers or they their wages can obtayne , Howe much differing and how much abating Must courtiers suffer , and manifolde checking , Never hast thou the whole , sometime ...
Percy Society. What shall I common the pensivenes and payne Of courtiers or they their wages can obtayne , Howe much differing and how much abating Must courtiers suffer , and manifolde checking , Never hast thou the whole , sometime ...
Contents
CONTENTS OF VOL | xxii |
AN INTERLUDE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS | 1 |
INTERLUDE OF THE DISOBEDIENT CHILD | |
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agayne alwayes Amyntas awaye brynge callyd cause chese Codrus connynge Coridon Cornix Countess of Devonshire court courtiers cyte daunce daye death doth dryve dyvers Earl Earl of Warwick eche eclogue father Faustus fayre folowe FREDERICK WILLIAM FAIRHOLT fynde fyre fyrste grete gyve hath heare honour husband JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL JAMES PRIOR kepe knowe labour Lady Warwick live Lord lyfe lyke lyve lyvynge maner married maye mayst mery Minalcas misery myddes myght mynde myne nere never nothynge nought payne Percy Society playne pleasaunt pleasure poynt praye Rich ryches ryght sayde saye servauntes shalt thou shee shewed shulde sonne stryfe styll swete tell thee therfore therof theyr thing thou art thou hast thyne thynge thynke Tyll tyme unto vayne waye whan whyle wife wolde woman words wretched wyfe wyll wyse yerth yonge