A Book of Roxburghe Ballads

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John Payne Collier
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - 340 Seiten

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Seite 138 - Let the world slide, let the world go : A fig for care, and a fig for woe ! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
Seite 12 - I gone without regard, Whereas great men, by flockes, there be flowne, There be flown, there be flown, there be flowne, to London-ward. Where they in pomp and pleasure doe waste That which Christmas was wonted to feast, Welladay ! Houses where musicke was wont for to ring, Nothing but Batts and Howlets doe sing ; Welladay...
Seite 272 - Then if you take heed not, free me from the curse, Who both give you warning, for, and the cutpurse. Youth, youth, thou hadst better been starved by thy nurse, Than live to be hanged for cutting a purse.
Seite xvi - Boords breuiary of health. What shoold I rehearz heer, what a bunch of ballets & songs all auncient : Az Broom broom on hil. So wo iz me begon, troly lo. Ouer a whinny Meg. Hey ding a ding. Bony lass vpon a green. My bony on gaue me a bek.
Seite xvii - Robin, lende me thy bowe, thy bowe, Robin the bow, Robin, lende to me thy bow a. There was a Mayde come out of Kent, Deintie...
Seite 26 - And all my neighbours can tell, I want both money and clothes, And yet I live wondrous well. I have a contented mind, And a heart to bear out all ; Though fortune, being unkind, Hath given me substance small.
Seite xvii - Tom a Lin and his wife, and his wives mother, They went over the bridge, all three together; The bridge was broken, and they fell in, The Devill go with all, quoth Tom a Lin.
Seite 29 - But, if they are caught i' th' action, They are carried away in disgrace, Either to the House of Correction, Or else to a worser place. O, fie on these pilfering...
Seite 106 - Clean to forsake her country and her kinsfolks all, And for to follow her true love, To bide all chance that might befall. The night is gone, and the day is come, And in the morning very early she did rise : She gets her down in a lower room, Where sundrie seamen she espies.
Seite 212 - He is counted but a gull. The players on the Bankside, The round Globe and the Swan, Will teach you idle tricks of love, But the Bull will play the man.

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