Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral & Trivial

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Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1926 - 384 pagina's
 

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Pagina 364 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Pagina 285 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Pagina 212 - Pastime with good company I love and shall until I die. Grudge who lust, but none deny, So God be pleased thus live will I. For my pastance Hunt, sing and dance, My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort — Who shall me let?
Pagina 4 - Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu ! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu ! " Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu ; Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth, Murie sing cuccu ! "Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu, Ne swik thu naver nu ; Sing, cuccu, nu, sing, cuccu, Sing, cuccu, sing, cuccu, nu !
Pagina 172 - That thee is sent, receyve in buxumnesse, The wrastling for this worlde axeth a fal. Her nis non hoom, her nis but wildernesse: Forth, pilgrim, forth ! Forth, beste, out of thy stal ! Know thy contree, look up, thank God of al ; Hold the hye wey, and lat thy gost thee lede: And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede.
Pagina 25 - I fro Love escaped am so fat, I never thenk to ben in his prison lene ; Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
Pagina 374 - The holly and the ivy, When they are both full grown, Of all the trees that are in the wood, The holly bears the crown...
Pagina 69 - O western wind, when wilt thou blow, That the small rain down can rain? Christ, that my love were in my arms, And I in my bed again!
Pagina 231 - Now let them drink till they nod and wink, Even as good fellows should do ; They shall not miss to have the bliss Good ale doth bring men to ; And all poor souls that have...
Pagina 295 - As clerkes finden Wreten in here book. Ne hadde the appil take ben, The appil taken ben, Ne hadde never our lady A ben hevene quene. Blessed be the time That appil take was. Therefore we moun singen Deo gracias.

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