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Percy Society. VI . The Messenger of mortality : Or Life and Death contrasted in a
Dialogue betwixt Death and a Lady . One of the most beautiful and plaintive
poems of “ Elia , ” ( Charles Lamb ) , was suggested by this old dialogue . The
tune is ...
Percy Society. VI . The Messenger of mortality : Or Life and Death contrasted in a
Dialogue betwixt Death and a Lady . One of the most beautiful and plaintive
poems of “ Elia , ” ( Charles Lamb ) , was suggested by this old dialogue . The
tune is ...
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A version may be seen in Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads , where it is given as
taken down from the recitation of a lady in Roxburghshire . Mr. M. A. Richardson ,
the editor of the Local Historian's Table Book , says that the ballad is ancient ...
A version may be seen in Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads , where it is given as
taken down from the recitation of a lady in Roxburghshire . Mr. M. A. Richardson ,
the editor of the Local Historian's Table Book , says that the ballad is ancient ...
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But he had not been gone a year and a day , Strange countries for to see ; When
languishing thoughts came into his head , Lady Nancy Belle he would go see ,
see , Lady Nancy Belle he would go see . So he rode , and he rode on his milk ...
But he had not been gone a year and a day , Strange countries for to see ; When
languishing thoughts came into his head , Lady Nancy Belle he would go see ,
see , Lady Nancy Belle he would go see . So he rode , and he rode on his milk ...
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| Title | Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 17 Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Percy Society Volume 17 of Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Percy Society |
| Author | Percy Society |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 May 2018 |
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