Merry Songs and Ballads, Prior to the Year 1800, Band 2

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John Stephen Farmer
Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1897
 

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Seite 113 - Her lips were red, and one was thin ; Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly ; But Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze, Than on the sun in July.
Seite 112 - Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft, as she, Nor half so full of juice. Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring; It was too wide a peck: And to say truth (for out it must) It...
Seite 114 - Marched boldly up, like our trained band, Presented, and away. When all the meat was on the table What man of knife or teeth was able To stay to be entreated ? And this the very reason was, Before the parson could say grace, The company was seated.
Seite 114 - Her mouth so small, when she does speak Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit.
Seite 111 - Cross, hard by the way Where we— thou know'st — do sell our hay, There is a house with stairs ; And there did I see coming down Such...
Seite 114 - They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. If wishing should be any sin, The Parson himself had guilty bin; (She lookt that day so purely",) And did the youth so oft the feat At night, as some did in conceit," It would have spoil'd him, surely.
Seite 93 - Cease, Cease — your vain Desire, Or I'll call out — What would you do ? My Dearer Honour ev'n to You I cannot, must not give — Retire, Or take this Life, whose chiefest part I gave you with the Conquest of my Heart.
Seite 113 - Pear, (The side that's next the Sun.) Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her Chin; (Some Bee had stung it newly...
Seite 113 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Seite 111 - Walked on before the rest; Our landlord looks like nothing to him; The king (God bless him!) 'twould undo him Should he go still so drest. At Course-a-park, without all doubt, He should have first been taken out By all the maids i' th' town: Though lusty Roger there had been, Or little George upon the green, Or Vincent of the Crown.

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