Northern Garlands ...Joseph Ritson R. Triphook, 1810 - Songs, English |
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... Drinking was his delight , his senses to doze , Keeping lewd company , when he should repose ; His money being spent , and they would tick no score , Then with a face of brass , he ask'd poor Betty more ... drink about , and fear no 5 12.
... Drinking was his delight , his senses to doze , Keeping lewd company , when he should repose ; His money being spent , and they would tick no score , Then with a face of brass , he ask'd poor Betty more ... drink about , and fear no 5 12.
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Joseph Ritson. She says , Boys drink about , and fear no reckonings large , For she had pawn'd her smock , to defray the charge . They did carouse it off , till they began to warm , Says Skelton make a match , I pray where's the harm ...
Joseph Ritson. She says , Boys drink about , and fear no reckonings large , For she had pawn'd her smock , to defray the charge . They did carouse it off , till they began to warm , Says Skelton make a match , I pray where's the harm ...
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... drink then a bumper to Stockton's success ; May its commerce increasing ne'er meet with distress ; May the people's endeavours procure them much wealth , And enjoy all their days the great blessing of health . Derry Down , & c . SONG V ...
... drink then a bumper to Stockton's success ; May its commerce increasing ne'er meet with distress ; May the people's endeavours procure them much wealth , And enjoy all their days the great blessing of health . Derry Down , & c . SONG V ...
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... drink at the fancy So , Landlady fill us the pot . Here's the gentleman's health that contriv'd it , For he is a right honest soul ; We'll laugh and we'll merrily sing , When we're over a full flowing bowl . Fal , lal , & c . SONG VIII ...
... drink at the fancy So , Landlady fill us the pot . Here's the gentleman's health that contriv'd it , For he is a right honest soul ; We'll laugh and we'll merrily sing , When we're over a full flowing bowl . Fal , lal , & c . SONG VIII ...
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... drink claret . Full glasses went round , till I could not see , O then they were all willing that I should go free But the devil may pay their reckoning for me , For now I have got out of Limbo . With many a foul step I stagger'd home ...
... drink claret . Full glasses went round , till I could not see , O then they were all willing that I should go free But the devil may pay their reckoning for me , For now I have got out of Limbo . With many a foul step I stagger'd home ...
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agayne archars Barnardcastle Bonny Scot Bowes brave call'd Chyviat cittie of London Cockerton dead dear doth Dowglas drink Durham e'er earl Douglas earl Percy fair Fal lal fear fell Follow the horses friends fylde gallant GARLAND gentlemen Harding and Wright hast hear heart Heigh-ho Highland laddie Hobie Noble honey JOSEPH RITSON keel row king lad oh lasses of Sedgfield Limbo lord Derwentwater lord Persé maid merrily merry monie ne'er never Newcastle beer night noble Northumberland numbers o'er Persé Perssy poor pray Randal ranting lasses river Tees roaring company ROOKHOPE Rookhope-head sayd says Tommy Linn Sedgfield Are roaring sing Stockton's commendation Skottes slain SONG sore sorrow soth spear stand Sunderland swore tell thee Ther was slayne There's thou thow tipling Tividale Tom Skelton took town true Twas unto Wallington wear Weardale Weardale-men wife wolde wyll Yarm Yorke Yorkshire
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Page 33 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart — A deep and deadly blow : Who never spoke more words than these — " Fight on, my merry men all; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Page 31 - I'll do the best that do I may, While I have strength to stand ; While I have power to wield my sword, I'll fight with heart and hand.
Page 35 - Ratcliff too, His sister's son was he; Sir David Lamb so well esteem'd, Yet saved could not be.
Page 30 - Ere thus I will out-braved be, One of us two shall die : I know thee well, an earl thou art, Lord Percy, so am I. But trust me, Percy, pity it were, And great offence, to kill Any of these our harmless men, For they have done no ill : Let thou and I the battle try. And set our men aside.
Page 36 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase : "Now God be with him...
Page 23 - With his hart blood the wear wete. Ther was never a freake wone foot wolde fle, But still in stour dyd stand, Heawyng on yche othar, whyll the myght dre, With many a bal-ful brande. This battell begane in Chyviat An owar befor the none, And when even-song bell was rang The battell was nat half done. The tooke 'on...
Page 27 - The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 18 - Nowe Cristes cors on his crowne, sayd the lord Perse. Who-soever ther-to says nay. Be my troth, doughte Doglas, he says, Thow shalt never se that day; Nethar in Ynglonde, Skottlonde, nar France, Nor for no man of a woman born, But and fortune be my chance, I dar met him on man for on.
Page 34 - The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long...
Page 33 - Then leaving life, Earl Percy took The dead man by the hand ; And said, " Earl Douglas, for thy life Would I had lost my land. " O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed With sorrow for thy sake ; For sure, a more redoubted knight Mischance did never take.