Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets : Together with Some Few of Later Date, Volum 2L.A. Lewis, 1839 - 307 pàgines |
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... Knight , or Lady's Policy 362 16. Why so pale ? By Sir John Suckling 370 17. Old Tom of Bedlam . Mad Song the first 371 18. The Distracted Puritan . Mad Song the second · • • 375 19. The Lunatic Lover . Mad Song the third 379 20. The ...
... Knight , or Lady's Policy 362 16. Why so pale ? By Sir John Suckling 370 17. Old Tom of Bedlam . Mad Song the first 371 18. The Distracted Puritan . Mad Song the second · • • 375 19. The Lunatic Lover . Mad Song the third 379 20. The ...
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... knights , ( 140 say historians , 80 says our poet , ) who were to carry his heart with them into Palestine . This dying command of the king was never performed . Our poet , with the honest prejudices of an Englishman , attributes this ...
... knights , ( 140 say historians , 80 says our poet , ) who were to carry his heart with them into Palestine . This dying command of the king was never performed . Our poet , with the honest prejudices of an Englishman , attributes this ...
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... knight , The lesse had beene her shame ; But she hath chose her a lazar man , A lazar both blinde and lame . " If this be true , thou Aldingar , The tyding thou tellest to me , Then will I make thee a rich rich knight , Rich both of ...
... knight , The lesse had beene her shame ; But she hath chose her a lazar man , A lazar both blinde and lame . " If this be true , thou Aldingar , The tyding thou tellest to me , Then will I make thee a rich rich knight , Rich both of ...
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... mee . you If you had chosen a right good knight , The lesse had been your shame : But you have chose you a lazar man , A lazar both blinde and lame . 60 55 40 Therfore a fyer there shall be built , And brent SIR ALDINGAR . 55 35.
... mee . you If you had chosen a right good knight , The lesse had been your shame : But you have chose you a lazar man , A lazar both blinde and lame . 60 55 40 Therfore a fyer there shall be built , And brent SIR ALDINGAR . 55 35.
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... knight To fight with that traitor , sir Aldingar , To maintaine me in my right . ” " Now forty dayes I will give thee To seeke thee a knight therin : 90 If thou find not a knight in forty dayes Thy bodye it must brenn . ” Then shee sent ...
... knight To fight with that traitor , sir Aldingar , To maintaine me in my right . ” " Now forty dayes I will give thee To seeke thee a knight therin : 90 If thou find not a knight in forty dayes Thy bodye it must brenn . ” Then shee sent ...
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Pàgina 339 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ; You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Pàgina 340 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate...
Pàgina 343 - With a new-fashion'd hall, built where the old one stood, Hung round with new pictures that do the poor no good ; With a fine marble chimney, wherein burns neither coal nor wood, And a new smooth shovel-board, whereon no victuals ne'er stood ; Like a young courtier, &c. With a new study stuft full of pamphlets and plays...
Pàgina 348 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Pàgina 336 - The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowne of golde so fair on his head, Among all his liege-men so noble of birth, To within one penny of what he is worth. " The seconde, to tell him, without any doubt, How soone he may ride this whole world about.
Pàgina 349 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Pàgina 334 - Abbot of Canterburye ; How for his house-keeping, and high renowne, They rode poste for him to fair London towne. An hundred men, the king did heare say, The abbot kept in his house every day ; And fifty golde chaynes, without any doubt, In velvet coates waited the abbot about.
Pàgina 235 - WHEN captaines couragious, whom death cold not daunte, Did march to the siege of the citty of Gaunt, They mustred their souldiers by two and by three, And the formost in battle was Mary Ambree.
Pàgina 337 - fore our fader the pope. Now welcome, sire abbot, the king he did say, Tis well thou'rt come back to keepe thy day ; For and if thou canst answer my questions three, Thy life and thy living both saved shall bee.
Pàgina 336 - How soone he may ride this whole world about: And at the third question I must not shrinke, But tell him there truly what he does thinke.