Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 17Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... Began to harbour in my breast ; My mind still then contriving was How I might gain this worldly wealth ; To purchase lands and live on them , So make my children mighty men . At seven times seven all worldly thought Began to harbour in ...
... Began to harbour in my breast ; My mind still then contriving was How I might gain this worldly wealth ; To purchase lands and live on them , So make my children mighty men . At seven times seven all worldly thought Began to harbour in ...
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... began most sweetly to play , And after a lesson was played two or three , He strained out this song most delicately : - A BEGGAR'S daughter did dwell on a green , Who for her beauty may well be a queen , A blithe bonny lass , and dainty ...
... began most sweetly to play , And after a lesson was played two or three , He strained out this song most delicately : - A BEGGAR'S daughter did dwell on a green , Who for her beauty may well be a queen , A blithe bonny lass , and dainty ...
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... began to publish about nineteen years after the Commonwealth , so that the circumstantial evidence is strongly in favour of the hypothesis advanced in our in- troductory remarks . P. 215 , 1. 13. - Bane . ] Near NOTES . 249.
... began to publish about nineteen years after the Commonwealth , so that the circumstantial evidence is strongly in favour of the hypothesis advanced in our in- troductory remarks . P. 215 , 1. 13. - Bane . ] Near NOTES . 249.
Contents
King James I and the Tinkler | 12 |
The Keach i the Creel | 13 |
The Merry Broomfield or the Westcountry Wager | 14 |
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