Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 17Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 59
... What would you give to your brother John's wife ? With the high and the lily oh ! A widow's weeds , and a quiet life , As the rose was so sweetly blown . III . The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green . SHEWING BALLADS , AND SONGS . 59.
... What would you give to your brother John's wife ? With the high and the lily oh ! A widow's weeds , and a quiet life , As the rose was so sweetly blown . III . The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green . SHEWING BALLADS , AND SONGS . 59.
Page 62
... shewed herself courteous , but never too coy , And at their commandment still she would be , So fair and so comely was pretty Bessee . Four suitors at once unto her did go , They craved her favour , but still she said no ; I would not ...
... shewed herself courteous , but never too coy , And at their commandment still she would be , So fair and so comely was pretty Bessee . Four suitors at once unto her did go , They craved her favour , but still she said no ; I would not ...
Page 143
... SHEWING HOW THEY MET BY APPOINTMENT IN A GROVE , WHERE SHE OBLIGED HIM TO FIGHT OR WED HER . EARLY on a summer's morning , When bright Phoebus was adorning Every bower with his beams , The fair lady came , it seems . At the bottom of a ...
... SHEWING HOW THEY MET BY APPOINTMENT IN A GROVE , WHERE SHE OBLIGED HIM TO FIGHT OR WED HER . EARLY on a summer's morning , When bright Phoebus was adorning Every bower with his beams , The fair lady came , it seems . At the bottom of a ...
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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