Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... nights . Night - walkers such as sleepe by day : And in the night hunt out for pray : That imitate the Bat and Owle , Night - Raven , and such Cat - eyed Fowle . One childe of darknesse seekes his puncke ; Another , at his liquor drunke ...
... nights . Night - walkers such as sleepe by day : And in the night hunt out for pray : That imitate the Bat and Owle , Night - Raven , and such Cat - eyed Fowle . One childe of darknesse seekes his puncke ; Another , at his liquor drunke ...
Page 115
... night - mates are to us unknowne , And in the steed of such good - fellow sprites , We meet with Robin - bad - fellow a nights , That enters houses secret in the darke , And only comes to pilfer , steale , and sharke . And as the one ...
... night - mates are to us unknowne , And in the steed of such good - fellow sprites , We meet with Robin - bad - fellow a nights , That enters houses secret in the darke , And only comes to pilfer , steale , and sharke . And as the one ...
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... night following , the beadle thinking to amend his call , cried with a loud voice , hang out your lantorne and candle . Maister Hobson hereupon hung out a lantorne and candle unlighted , as the beadle againe com- manded , whereupon he ...
... night following , the beadle thinking to amend his call , cried with a loud voice , hang out your lantorne and candle . Maister Hobson hereupon hung out a lantorne and candle unlighted , as the beadle againe com- manded , whereupon he ...
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ALEXANDER DYCE Bankes BAY HORSE booth bull-baiting coaches Congreve cunning devill divell dost doth downe drinke Duchess of Marlborough F.S.A. THOMAS fashion feare fellow foole Frost Fair frozen gentleman George Berkeley grace gull haberdasher hand Harts hast hath heare heart heere hell honest horse husband I'le Iohn kind landlord live London London Bridge Lord Maister Hob Mandilions Marocco merry mony ne're neighbours never Percy Society PETER CUNNINGHAM poem poet poore pray printed purse Queene quoth Maister Hobson River Thames roasted Rowlands sayd sayes scurvy servant shew shillings shore sweare taverne tearme thaw thee theeves there's thing thinke Thomson tobacco tract trade tricks twas unto villaine ware weare wench whome whore wife WILLIAM WILLIAM CHAPPELL William Congreve WILLIAM SANDYS wine withall wonder