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A Collection of Old Ballads: Corrected from the Best and Most Ancient Copies ... - Page 222
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A Collection of Old Ballads: Corrected from the Best and Most ..., Volume 1

Ballads, English - 1723 - 348 pages
...his Eftate. Sore fick he was, and like to dye, No help his Life could fave ; His Wife by him as fick did lye, And both poflefs'd one Grave. No Love between...Babes behind : The one a fine and pretty Boy, Not pafling three Years old, The other a Girl more young than he, And fram'd in Beauty's Mould : The Father...
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Drinking songs. Miscellaneous songs. Ancient ballads

Ballads, English - 1783 - 360 pages
...No love between thefe two was loft, Each was to other kind ; In love they liv'd, in love they died, And left two babes behind : The one a fine and pretty...years old ; The other a girl, more young than he, And made in beautys mold. The father left his little fon, As plainly doth appear, When he to perfeft age...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...No love between thefe two was loft, Each was to other kind : In love they liv'd, in love they died, And left two babes behind ; • > -, The one a fine and pretty boy, Not palling three years old : Th' other ajjirl, more young thin he, And made in beauty's mould. • The...
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Drinking-songs. Miscellaneous songs. Ancient ballads

Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...No love between these two was lost, Each was to other kind j In love they liv'd, in love they died, And left two babes behind : The one a fine and pretty boy, Not passing three years old ; The other a girl, more young than he. And made in beauty's mould. The father...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...No love between these two was lost, Each was to other kind : In love they liv'd, in love they died, And left two babes behind : The one a fine and pretty boy, Not passine; three years old : The other a girl, more young than he, And made in beauty's mould. The father...
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Ancient Songs and Ballads, from the Reign of King Henry the Second ..., Volume 2

Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...love they died, And left two babes behind : [V. 10. that.] The one a fine and pretty boy, Not passing three years old : The other a girl, more young than he, And made in beauty s mould. 20 The father left his little son, As plainly doth appear, When he to perfect...
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Select poetry for children: with notes, arranged by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...No love between these two was lost, Each was to other kind ; In love they liv'd, in love they died, And left two babes behind : The one a fine and pretty boy, Not passing three years old ; The other a girl, more young than he, And fram'd in beauty's mould. The father...
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Knight's Store of Knowledge for All Readers: Being a Collection of Treatises ...

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...save two babes they were about to leave behind them : — " The one a fine and pretty boy, Not passing three years old ; The other a girl more young than he, And framed in beauty's mould. The father left his little son, As plainly doth appear, When he to perfect...
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The seven ages of human life. Old age

Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...children.—Their ages appear in the following stanza : The one a fine and prettye boy Not passing three years old, The other a girl more young than he And framed in beauty's molde. This old ballad is the subject of one of Addison's papers in the Spectator....
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Poems for Young People

William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...No love between these two was lost, Each was to other kind : In love they lived, in love they died, And left two babes behind : The one a fine and pretty boy, Not passing three years old ; The other a girl more young than he, And made in Beauty's mould. The father...
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