Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, Volume 3

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William Carew Hazlitt
J.R. Smith, 1864 - 321 pagina's
 

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Pagina 59 - For except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie. ' And first,
Pagina 144 - Thisby is, certain. This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present Wall, that vile wall which did these lovers sunder: And through wall's chink, poor souls, they are content To whisper; at the which let no man wonder.
Pagina 302 - Who is so glad a man As is our curate than ? I wolde ye knewe it, a curate Not far without Newgate ; Of a parysh large The man hath mikle charge, And none within this border That kepeth such order, Nor one a this syde Nauerne...
Pagina 58 - Tom with his pipe made such a noise, That he pleased both the girls and boys ; And they stopped to hear him play,
Pagina 35 - 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 57 - Then on a sudden would hee play againe, and make them start up and follow him. Thus kept hee them the better part of the night. At last hee in pittie left playing, and let them rest. They being asleep on the bare ground he tooke their money from them, and gave them this song for their farewell, to the tune of,
Pagina 186 - But O, I spy the cuckoo, the cuckoo, the cuckoo; See where she sitteth: come away, my joy; Come away, I prithee: I do not like the cuckoo Should sing where my Peggy and I kiss and toy.
Pagina 130 - CCmendation of the adueterus viage of the wurthy Captain. M. Thomas Stutely Esquyer and others, towards the Land called Terra florida. Imprinted at Londo at the long Shop adioyning vnto Saint Mildreds Churche in the Pultrie, by John Aide.
Pagina 58 - the Moone shining clearely, and the weather being calme, in the euening I tript it to Ingerstone, stealing away from those numbers of people that followed mee ; yet doe I what I could, I had aboue fiftie in the company, some of London, the other of the Country thereabout, that would needs, when they heard my Taber, trudge after me through thicke and thin.
Pagina 66 - She wolde theron that I were cheke, And stareth me in the face ; Whan she loketh on me so, I wolde she sholde let a rappe go, That it myght rynge ouer all the place.

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