A Collection of Seventy-nine Black-letter Ballads and Broadsides, Printed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Between the Years 1559 and 1597: Accompanied with an Introduction and Illustrative Notes |
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Page 21 - Where she sat mildly all alone, A pleasant gesture and a lovely look she shows, As if grief she had never known. Quoth he, my children now are slain; What thinks fair Grissel of the same ? Sweet Grissel, now declare thy mind to me.
Page 294 - they accused me, laid to my charge that,' &c. He refers us to Palsgrave, who has some curious examples of it.
Page 307 - Enterlude, never before this Tyme imprinted, entreating of the Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene : not only godlie, learned, and fruitefull, but also well furnished with pleasaunt myrth and pastime, very delectable for those which shall heare or reade the same. Made by the learned clarke, Lewis Wager.
Page 276 - France, being a Patterne to all vertuous women. Translated out of Italian. London. Printed by EP for John Wright, dwelling in Giltspur Street at the Signe of the Bible.
Page 280 - It is jubilant, defiant: Wherefore, Sir Pope, In England you have lost your hope. Curse on, spare not, Your knights are like to go to pot; and ends with a defiance: Now do I end, I came to show you as a friend...
Page 78 - Y louing good neighbours, that comes to beholde Me, fillie poore Beckles, in cares manyfolde; In forrow all drowned, which floated of late, With teares all bedewed, at my wofull ftate : With fire fo confumed, moft wofull to vewe, Whofe fpoyle my poore people for euer may rue ; When well you have vewed my dolefull decay, And pittie haue pierced your heartes as it may, Say thus, my good neighbours, that God in his ire For finne hath confumed me, Beckles, with fire.
Page 276 - SHEWING HOW SHE, FROM A POORE MANS DAUGHTER, CAME TO BE A GREAT LADY IN FRANCE, BEING A PATTERNE TO ALL VERTUOUS WOMEN. CranjJlatetl out of Italian. LONDON: Printed by EP for John Wright, dwelling in Giltspurstreet at the signe of the Bible.
Page 260 - Ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England, Fraunce and Ireland §>ueene, &c.
Page 302 - Friskin was ao footing it aloft on the Greene, with foote out and foote in, and as busie as might be at Rogero, Basilino, Turkelony, All the flowers of the broom, Pepper is black...