Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: Specimens of lyric poetry, composed in England in the reign of Edward the FirstPercy Society, 1841 - English literature |
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... give a glossary ; but other occupations have so far taken up my leisure , that I have preferred giving to the members of the Percy Society bare texts than nothing at all . I am also rather opposed to the multiplication of small and ...
... give a glossary ; but other occupations have so far taken up my leisure , that I have preferred giving to the members of the Percy Society bare texts than nothing at all . I am also rather opposed to the multiplication of small and ...
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Percy Society. This fierie bushe that was so bright , To Moises did give suche a light , And not one leafe was brent . Another sing behould now , lo ! Of Sedrak , Misake , Abbednago , In a fornace concluded , And not one hare of them ...
Percy Society. This fierie bushe that was so bright , To Moises did give suche a light , And not one leafe was brent . Another sing behould now , lo ! Of Sedrak , Misake , Abbednago , In a fornace concluded , And not one hare of them ...
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... Give life to one another's joys ; And you anon shall by their noise Perceive that they are merry . Rank misers now do sparing shun ; Their hall of music soundeth ; And dogs thence with whole shoulders run , So all things there aboundeth ...
... Give life to one another's joys ; And you anon shall by their noise Perceive that they are merry . Rank misers now do sparing shun ; Their hall of music soundeth ; And dogs thence with whole shoulders run , So all things there aboundeth ...
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... Give frankly to your friends in love : The bounteous mind is freely bent , And never will a niggard prove . Our table spread within the hall , I know a banquet is at hand , And friendly sort to welcome all That wil unto their tacklings ...
... Give frankly to your friends in love : The bounteous mind is freely bent , And never will a niggard prove . Our table spread within the hall , I know a banquet is at hand , And friendly sort to welcome all That wil unto their tacklings ...
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... give the tale to which I allude in No. 30. ] THREE children sliding on the ice , Upon a summer's day , As it fell out , they all fell in , The rest they ran away . Now had these children been at home , Or sliding on dry ground , Ten ...
... give the tale to which I allude in No. 30. ] THREE children sliding on the ice , Upon a summer's day , As it fell out , they all fell in , The rest they ran away . Now had these children been at home , Or sliding on dry ground , Ten ...
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Page 177 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 82 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 161 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 37 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
Page 161 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 7 - Pussy cat, pussy cat. Where have you been? I've been to London To look at the queen. Pussy cat, pussy cat. What did you there? I frightened a little mouse Under her chair.
Page 25 - The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero, Reddens laudes Domino.
Page 44 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 100 - Rockabye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
Page vii - A bag-pudding the king did make, And stuffed it well with plums: And in it put great lumps of fat, As big as my two thumbs. The king and queen did eat thereof, And noblemen beside; And what they could not eat that night, The queen next morning fried.