Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 30Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... door to door I beg my bread with clack and dish at my leisure . My rich attire , By fortune's ire , To rotten rags and nakedness they are beaten . My body soft , which the king embraced oft , With vermin vile annoy'd and eat on . On ...
... door to door I beg my bread with clack and dish at my leisure . My rich attire , By fortune's ire , To rotten rags and nakedness they are beaten . My body soft , which the king embraced oft , With vermin vile annoy'd and eat on . On ...
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... doors , And clap their windows down ; So that no creature , young or old , Should in the streets be seen , Till she had ridden all about , Throughout the city clean . And when the day of riding came , No person did her see , Saving her ...
... doors , And clap their windows down ; So that no creature , young or old , Should in the streets be seen , Till she had ridden all about , Throughout the city clean . And when the day of riding came , No person did her see , Saving her ...
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... door . Upon a time this damsel she Fell sick , and in a deadly swound She lay for twenty hours ' space , No life in her then could be found . Her aged father did lament , Her mother she shed many a tear ; She wept , she wail'd , she ...
... door . Upon a time this damsel she Fell sick , and in a deadly swound She lay for twenty hours ' space , No life in her then could be found . Her aged father did lament , Her mother she shed many a tear ; She wept , she wail'd , she ...
Contents
A Song between Truth and Ignorance 89 | 6 |
STRANGE HISTORIES BY THOMAS DELONEY | 10 |
A MARRIAGE TRIUMPH BY THOMAS HEYWOOD | 18 |
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