The Roxburghe Ballads, Volume 2

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Charles Hindley
Reeves and Turner, 1874 - 502 pagine
 

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Pagina 282 - COME live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields.
Pagina 285 - ... posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Pagina 114 - I could not get one bit of bread, Whereby my hunger might be fed : Nor drink, but such as channels yield, Or stinking ditches in the field. Thus, weary of my life, at...
Pagina 378 - What revel rout Is kept about, In every corner where I go, I will o'ersee, And merry be, And make good sport, with ho, ho, ho...
Pagina 382 - Twixt one another secretly ; I mark their gloze, And it disclose To them whom they have wronged so ; When I have done, I get me gone, And leave them scolding, ho, ho, ho ! When men do traps and engines...
Pagina 121 - ... yellow, her face round and full, her eye gray, delicate harmony being betwixt each part's proportion, and each proportion's colour ; her body fat, white, and smooth ; her countenance cheerful, and like to her condition.
Pagina 284 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Pagina 293 - The horse doth ease if he be ridden, The feast doth please if guest be bidden ; ' The bucket draws the water forth, The rose when plucked is still most worth : Such is the virgin, in my eyes, That lives, loves, marries, ere she dies.
Pagina 380 - And while they sleepe and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow, If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho...

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