Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: Kind heart's dream

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Percy Society, 1841
 

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Seite iv - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Seite 91 - A Knight of Cales, A Gentleman of Wales, And a Laird of the North Countree ; A Yeoman of Kent, With his yearly rent. Will buy them out all three...
Seite vii - Accordingly, when John Hayward, with his bell and the cart, came along, finding two dead bodies lie upon the stall, they took them up with the instrument they used, and threw them into the cart, and all this while the piper slept soundly.
Seite 38 - ... but bend your course directly in the middle line, that the whole body of the church may appear to be yours ; where, in view of all, you may publish your suit in what manner you affect most, either with the slide of your cloak from the one shoulder — and then you must, as 'twere in anger, suddenly snatch at the middle of the inside, if it be taffeta at the least, and so by that means your costly lining is betrayed ; or else by the pretty advantage of compliment.
Seite xiv - To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities.
Seite iv - About three moneths since died M. Robert Greene, leaving many papers in sundry Booke sellers hands, among other his Groatsworth of wit, in which a letter written to divers play-makers, is offensively by one or two of them taken ; and because on the dead they cannot be avenged, they wilfully forge in their conceites a living Author : and after tossing it two and fro, no remedy, but it must light on me.
Seite xi - The pope's pittiful Lamentation for the Death of his deere Darling, Don Joan of Austria ; and Deaths Aunswer to the same. With an Epitaphe upon the Death of the said Don Joan. Translated after the French printed Copy, by HC Imprinted by JC 16mo.
Seite 85 - ... all they together went to sea, each one in a riddle, or cive, and went in the same very substantially, with flaggons of wine, making merrie and drinking by the way in the same riddles or cives...
Seite v - Epistle to the second part of Gerileon, though by the workemans error TN were set to the end : that I confesse to be mine. and repent it not.
Seite xiii - Other news I am aduertised of, that a scald trivial lying pamphlet, cald Greens Groats-worth of Wit, is given out to be of my doing. God neuer haue care of my soule, but utterly renounce me, if the least word or sillable in it proceeded from my pen, or if I were any way privie to the writing or printing of it.

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