Six Ballads, with Burdens, from Ms. No. CLXVIII. in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volum 13

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James Goodwin
Percy Society, 1844 - 15 sider
 

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Side 11 - My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Side iv - J. PAYNE COLLIER, EsQ. FSA T. CROFTON CROKER, EsQ. FSA, MRIA PETER CUNNINGHAM, EsQ. REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. WILLIAM JERDAN, EsQ. FSA, MRS L.
Side i - HARP NOW LIVES ON ENGLAND'S SHIELD ; There never may its strings a discord yield, But its past murmurs, fearless, true, and bold, — Why should the honest heart or hand withhold ? TCC FINIS.
Side 4 - THE leon of lyme ys large and long ; The beare to fyght is stowte and strong ; But off all beastes that go or crepe, The myghtiest ys the horned shepe. The blacke shepe, &c. The shepe ys off a monstruous myght, What thyng soeuer his homes on lyght, He bearyth downe bothe castell and towre, None is him licke in marciall powre. The blacke shepe, &c. Syx hundreth howsys with cart and plowgh I haue earst knowen, where nowght ys now But grene moll-hilles,* they are layde playne; This cruell beast ouer...
Side 6 - ... of princes, concluding treaties of peace, and concerting alliances : they presided in cabinet councils, levied national subsidies, influenced courts, and managed the machines of every important operation and event, both in the religious and political world." Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, vol. ip 294. Halfe Englande ys nowght now but shepe, In euerye corner they playe boe pepe ; Lorde, them confownde by twentye and ten, And fyll their places with Cristen men. The blacke shepe, &c.
Side xi - ... Psalms in metre,* as they used to be sung in his house at Ely, and, likewise, the very curious ballads here printed. It is doubtful, however, whether all the contents of the MS. can rightly be attributed to Dr. Richard Cox as the genuine author, notwithstanding the note on its first page, appended to it by his son Roger Cox, for we find in it two other specimens of English verse, which are certainly not his, being inserted among the published poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt. The former of them is his...
Side 4 - Cuius contrarium fahum est. THE leon of lyme ys large and long ; The beare to fyght is stowte and strong ; But off all beastes that go or crepe, The myghtiest ys the horned shepe. The blacke shepe, &c. The shepe ys off a monstruous myght, What thyng soeuer his homes on lyght, He bearyth downe bothe castell and towre, None is him licke in marciall powre.
Side viii - ... abounded in considerable numbers. In the following reigns, however, poetical compositions of a better sort were more frequent, increasing both in quantity and quality. As soon as the re-introduction into England of the study of the languages oration), and the strict disciplinarian master of Corpus Christi College, who was made the subject of the following pasquinade : Doctor John Jegon, Bene't College Master, Broke the scholars heads, gave the walls a pUister.

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