Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 17Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... Gone with a touch . Thus think , and smoke tobacco . And when the smoke ascends on high , Then thou beholdst the vanity Of worldly stuff , Gone with a puff . Thus think , and smoke tobacco . And when the pipe grows foul within , Think ...
... Gone with a touch . Thus think , and smoke tobacco . And when the smoke ascends on high , Then thou beholdst the vanity Of worldly stuff , Gone with a puff . Thus think , and smoke tobacco . And when the pipe grows foul within , Think ...
Page 70
... gone away with his sight , Had not a young woman gone forth in the night . Among the said men , her fancy did move , To search and to seek for her own true love , Who seeing young Monford there gasping to die , She saved his life ...
... gone away with his sight , Had not a young woman gone forth in the night . Among the said men , her fancy did move , To search and to seek for her own true love , Who seeing young Monford there gasping to die , She saved his life ...
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... gone , she is utterly lost ; We have not heard of her a twelvemonth at most ! Which makes us distracted with sorrow and care , And drowns us in tears at the point of despair . I'm grieved to hear these sad tidings , he cried . Alas ...
... gone , she is utterly lost ; We have not heard of her a twelvemonth at most ! Which makes us distracted with sorrow and care , And drowns us in tears at the point of despair . I'm grieved to hear these sad tidings , he cried . Alas ...
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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