Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 27Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... thay bene of hie estait , The quene , † thay suld nocht counterfait : Quhare ever thay go , it may be sene , How kirk , and calsay , thay soup clene , ‡ The imagis into the kirk May think of thair syde taillis irk : § For quhen the ...
... thay bene of hie estait , The quene , † thay suld nocht counterfait : Quhare ever thay go , it may be sene , How kirk , and calsay , thay soup clene , ‡ The imagis into the kirk May think of thair syde taillis irk : § For quhen the ...
Page 77
... thay be coverit mouth and neis . In that case thay will nane displeis , Nor quhen thay go to quiet places , I thame excuse , to hyde thair faces , Quhen thay wald mak collatioun , With any lustie companyeoun , Thocht thay be hid than to ...
... thay be coverit mouth and neis . In that case thay will nane displeis , Nor quhen thay go to quiet places , I thame excuse , to hyde thair faces , Quhen thay wald mak collatioun , With any lustie companyeoun , Thocht thay be hid than to ...
Page 91
... thay wait not quhat to weir ; On claythis thay wair monye a croun ; And all for new fangilnes of geir . Thair bodyes bravelie thay attyir , Of carnal lust to eik the fyir . I fairliet quhy thai have no feir To gar men deime quhat thay ...
... thay wait not quhat to weir ; On claythis thay wair monye a croun ; And all for new fangilnes of geir . Thair bodyes bravelie thay attyir , Of carnal lust to eik the fyir . I fairliet quhy thai have no feir To gar men deime quhat thay ...
Contents
SATIRICAL SONGS AND POEMS ON COSTUME | 1 |
THE MERCER 7 | 7 |
THE SHOEMAKER 16 | 16 |
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