Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... present were for New - gate voyage bound ; From thence up Holborne - hill they were convaid , And so to Tiberne all their quarrell staid . A COUSENING KNAVE . A SHIFTING knave about the towne 14 THE KNAVE OF CLUBBS .
... present were for New - gate voyage bound ; From thence up Holborne - hill they were convaid , And so to Tiberne all their quarrell staid . A COUSENING KNAVE . A SHIFTING knave about the towne 14 THE KNAVE OF CLUBBS .
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Percy Society. PREFACE . Ar the present season of the year , it may not be deemed inappropiate to present the Members of the Percy Society with a Frostie Garland in the shape of a collection of bal- lads , illustrating the great frost of ...
Percy Society. PREFACE . Ar the present season of the year , it may not be deemed inappropiate to present the Members of the Percy Society with a Frostie Garland in the shape of a collection of bal- lads , illustrating the great frost of ...
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... present age , and a great consternation to all the spectators . [ From a broadside in the British Museum . ] BEHOLD the wonder of this present age , A famous river now become a stage . Question not what I now declare to you , The Thames ...
... present age , and a great consternation to all the spectators . [ From a broadside in the British Museum . ] BEHOLD the wonder of this present age , A famous river now become a stage . Question not what I now declare to you , The Thames ...
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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