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Page 91
Percy's copy contains twenty - nine stanzas , and is taken from one in the British
Museum , with a few corrections from his celebrated folio MS . The ballad may
also be found in a work called Wit restor'd , in severall select poems , not formerly
...
Percy's copy contains twenty - nine stanzas , and is taken from one in the British
Museum , with a few corrections from his celebrated folio MS . The ballad may
also be found in a work called Wit restor'd , in severall select poems , not formerly
...
Page 204
THERE was a crafty miller , and he Had lusty sons , one , two , and three : He
called them all , and asked their will , If that to them he left his mill , He called first
to his eldest son , Saying , My life is almost run ; If I to you this mill do make , What
...
THERE was a crafty miller , and he Had lusty sons , one , two , and three : He
called them all , and asked their will , If that to them he left his mill , He called first
to his eldest son , Saying , My life is almost run ; If I to you this mill do make , What
...
Page 236
The first land we made it was called the Deadman , Next , Ram'shead off
Plymouth , Start , Portland , and Wight ; We passed by Beechy , by Fairleigh , and
Dungeness , And hove our ship to , off the South Foreland light . Then a signal
was ...
The first land we made it was called the Deadman , Next , Ram'shead off
Plymouth , Start , Portland , and Wight ; We passed by Beechy , by Fairleigh , and
Dungeness , And hove our ship to , off the South Foreland light . Then a signal
was ...
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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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