Ancient Songs: From the Time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution ...Joseph Ritson J. Johnson, 1790 - 332 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... fing- ing talents , it is most likely they never poffeffed any ; and what fort of musicians they were , may be in fome measure conceived from a part of the ceremony which the Effayift has carefully and judiciously fuppreffed . After the ...
... fing- ing talents , it is most likely they never poffeffed any ; and what fort of musicians they were , may be in fome measure conceived from a part of the ceremony which the Effayift has carefully and judiciously fuppreffed . After the ...
Pagina x
... him ; but ( continues he ) yee shall fee what I fhall doe , I will make a lay for him , and when it is made , I fhall make an harper to fing it before him . So anon hee one would have been procured , and not " one X. OBSERVATIONS ON.
... him ; but ( continues he ) yee shall fee what I fhall doe , I will make a lay for him , and when it is made , I fhall make an harper to fing it before him . So anon hee one would have been procured , and not " one X. OBSERVATIONS ON.
Pagina xi
... fing the lay , which was the worft lay that euer harper fung with harpe , or with any other inftrument . And [ at ] the great feaft that king Marke made for ioy of the victorie which hee had , because the Seffoines were put out of his ...
... fing the lay , which was the worft lay that euer harper fung with harpe , or with any other inftrument . And [ at ] the great feaft that king Marke made for ioy of the victorie which hee had , because the Seffoines were put out of his ...
Pagina xvii
... fing ; whereas the Minstrels fongs were without tune , and could not be performed , even by themfelves , without the twang of a harp , or the fcrape of a fiddle . Thefe two ( not to fpeak of the cultivation of poetry and mufic by ...
... fing ; whereas the Minstrels fongs were without tune , and could not be performed , even by themfelves , without the twang of a harp , or the fcrape of a fiddle . Thefe two ( not to fpeak of the cultivation of poetry and mufic by ...
Pagina xxv
... fing , That was beloved of a king . One comparison more , and we have done . Methinks I hear the throstle cock , Methinks I hear the jay , Methinks I hear lord Barnards horn ; And I would I were away . Lye ftill , lye ftill , thou ...
... fing , That was beloved of a king . One comparison more , and we have done . Methinks I hear the throstle cock , Methinks I hear the jay , Methinks I hear lord Barnards horn ; And I would I were away . Lye ftill , lye ftill , thou ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina lxvi - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Pagina 179 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Pagina lxix - Go from my window, love, go ; Go from my window, my dear ! The wind and the rain Will drive you back again ; You cannot be lodged here.
Pagina 181 - Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes ; With everything that pretty is — My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Pagina 224 - Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly) ; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face; I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Pagina 225 - Marched boldly up, like our trained band, Presented, and away. When all the meat was on the table, What man of knife or teeth was able To stay to be entreated ? And this the very reason was, Before the parson could say grace The company was seated.
Pagina lxvii - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Pagina 223 - Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on, which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth (for out it must) It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck.
Pagina lviii - Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill: Brome, brome on Hive hill, The gentle brome on Hive hill, The brome standes on Hive hill a.
Pagina xxi - Percy out of Northumberland, And a vow to God made he, That he would hunt in the mountains Of Cheviot, within days three, In the maugre of doughty Douglas, And all that ever with him be. The fattest harts in all Cheviot He said he would kill, and carry them away ; " By my faith," said the doughty Douglas again, " I will let that hunting if that I may.