A Collection of Old Ballads: Corrected from the Best and Most Ancient Copies Extant ; with Introductions Historical, Critical, Or Humorous ; Illustrated with Copper Plates, Volume 1J. Roberts, 1723 - Ballads, English |
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Page iii
... never pretended to give him any thing more than an old Song . But as the greatest Part of this Book is not my own , and feveral things in it written Ages ago , I may , I hope , with- out either Vanity or Offence enter upon the Praifes ...
... never pretended to give him any thing more than an old Song . But as the greatest Part of this Book is not my own , and feveral things in it written Ages ago , I may , I hope , with- out either Vanity or Offence enter upon the Praifes ...
Page v
... never fit down contented without his Bottle and his Song . Horace could drop the Praifes of Auguftus and Mæcenas , to fing the Adven- tures of his Journey to Brandufium , and the Baulk he met with from a Servant * Book I. Satyr 5 ...
... never fit down contented without his Bottle and his Song . Horace could drop the Praifes of Auguftus and Mæcenas , to fing the Adven- tures of his Journey to Brandufium , and the Baulk he met with from a Servant * Book I. Satyr 5 ...
Page vi
... never be forgot . The Ballad - Makers are a more ancient , more numerous , and more noble Society than the boafted Free - Mafons ; and Duke upon Duke will witness , that People of Confiderable Fashion have thought it no Difgrace to ...
... never be forgot . The Ballad - Makers are a more ancient , more numerous , and more noble Society than the boafted Free - Mafons ; and Duke upon Duke will witness , that People of Confiderable Fashion have thought it no Difgrace to ...
Page vii
... never was ufed more than amongst the English in Times of old . For we may very reaso- nably fuppofe , that one half at least of their Works are loft ; and we have ftill one half of whatever is remarkable in Hiftory , handed down to us ...
... never was ufed more than amongst the English in Times of old . For we may very reaso- nably fuppofe , that one half at least of their Works are loft ; and we have ftill one half of whatever is remarkable in Hiftory , handed down to us ...
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... never bragg'd of me . When by the King I am defil'd , My Father's Griefs begin ; He'll have no Comfort of his Child , Nor come to my Wedding . Go , fetch me down my Planet - Book Straight from my private Room ; For in the fame I mean to ...
... never bragg'd of me . When by the King I am defil'd , My Father's Griefs begin ; He'll have no Comfort of his Child , Nor come to my Wedding . Go , fetch me down my Planet - Book Straight from my private Room ; For in the fame I mean to ...
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Againſt Alack Arthur a Bland Ballad Beauty beſt bold Robin Hood bonny Dundee bonny Lafs brave Bride call'd cry'd Dame Daughter dear Death doth Dragon Duke Duke of Hereford dy'd e're Earl Douglas Earl Marshal England faid fair fame Fane Shore Father felf fent fhall fhew fight firſt flain fome foon fore fought ftand ftill fuch fweet gallant George Gilderoy Grief Griffel Hand hang'd Heart Hiftory Horfely Houſe Johnny Armstrong King Henry Knight Lady laft laſt likewiſe Little John Lord Love marry'd Maſter merry moft moſt muſt ne'er never Noble pleaſant Pleaſure Poet preſently Prince Queen quoth fhe Raderer reply'd Robin Hood Rofamond Rofe ſaid ſay ſee ſeen ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall Song ſpeak ſtand ſtay ſtill ſtrong Stutly ſweet Sword thee thefe theſe Thing thofe thoſe Thouſand thro took unto whofe Wife young
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Page 225 - Did cover them with leaves. And now the heavy wrath of God Upon their uncle fell ; Yea, fearful fiends did haunt his house, . His conscience felt an hell : His barns were fired, his goods consumed, His lands were barren made, His cattle died within the field, And nothing with him stayed.
Page 12 - The like was never scene. Most curiously that bower was built Of stone and timber strong, An hundered and fifty doors Did to this bower belong : And they so cunninglye contriv'd With turnings round about, That none but with a clue of thread, Could enter in or out.
Page 82 - squires, or lords of renown, Without e'er a foot of free land ; We feast on good cheer, with wine, ale, and beer, And ev'ry thing at our command." Then music and dancing did finish the day ; At length when the sun waxed low, Then all the whole train the grove did refrain, And unto their caves they did go. And so ever after, as long as he liv'd, Altho' he was proper and tall, Yet, nevertheless, the truth to express, Still Little John they did him call.
Page 116 - He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long...
Page 63 - Here with the ladyes such sport they did make, The nobles with laughing did make their sides ake.
Page 89 - And danc'd round about the oke tree ; " For three merry men, and three merry men, And three merry men we be. "And ever hereafter as long as we live, * We three will be as one ; The wood it shall ring, and the old wife sing, Of Robin Hood, Arthur, and John.
Page 223 - You must be father and mother both, And uncle all in one; God knows what will become of them, When I am dead and gone.