Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 27Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... quhen the wedder bene maist fair , The dust fleis hiest in the air , And all thair facis dois begarie , || Gif thay culd speik , thay walde thame warie , ΒΆ To se I think ane plesand sicht , Of Italie the ladyis bricht , In thair ...
... quhen the wedder bene maist fair , The dust fleis hiest in the air , And all thair facis dois begarie , || Gif thay culd speik , thay walde thame warie , ΒΆ To se I think ane plesand sicht , Of Italie the ladyis bricht , In thair ...
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Percy Society. Above all other Christin land : Yit , quhen thay travell throw the townis , Men seis thair feit beneth thair gownis , Four inche aboue thair proper heillis , Circular about , als round as quheillis . * Quhare throw thare ...
Percy Society. Above all other Christin land : Yit , quhen thay travell throw the townis , Men seis thair feit beneth thair gownis , Four inche aboue thair proper heillis , Circular about , als round as quheillis . * Quhare throw thare ...
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... quhen ye pleis , Scho wil discover mouth , and neis ; An with ane humill countenance , With visage bair , mak reverence . Quhen our ladyis dois ryde in rane , Suld no man have thame at disdane , Thocht thay be coverit mouth and neis ...
... quhen ye pleis , Scho wil discover mouth , and neis ; An with ane humill countenance , With visage bair , mak reverence . Quhen our ladyis dois ryde in rane , Suld no man have thame at disdane , Thocht thay be coverit mouth and neis ...
Contents
SATIRICAL SONGS AND POEMS ON COSTUME | 1 |
THE MERCER 7 | 7 |
THE SHOEMAKER 16 | 16 |
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