The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 5, Issue 2Francis James Child Houghton, Mifflin, 1898 - Ballads, English |
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... say when he comes , my son ? Come tell it unto me . ' ' I will dress me up in sailor's clothes , And my face he will never see . ' 5And it's what wilt thou do with thy pretty little wife , my son ? • Come tell it unto me . ' ' I will ...
... say when he comes , my son ? Come tell it unto me . ' ' I will dress me up in sailor's clothes , And my face he will never see . ' 5And it's what wilt thou do with thy pretty little wife , my son ? • Come tell it unto me . ' ' I will ...
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... says ; your brothers are here . The brothers say , we have done wrong to burn her ; we have left her child an orphan . ) Kolberg , Lud , XVI , 291 , No 476 . P. 114 , st . 17 . O whare is a ' my merry young men , Whom I gi meat and fee ...
... says ; your brothers are here . The brothers say , we have done wrong to burn her ; we have left her child an orphan . ) Kolberg , Lud , XVI , 291 , No 476 . P. 114 , st . 17 . O whare is a ' my merry young men , Whom I gi meat and fee ...
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... says ; — The face that thou wearest , covered with falling tears , is not ap- proved by the sacred books ; nor do wise men praise it . For they [ the tears ] , like sparks , ' tis said , do burn those men ( for whom they're shed ) ...
... says ; — The face that thou wearest , covered with falling tears , is not ap- proved by the sacred books ; nor do wise men praise it . For they [ the tears ] , like sparks , ' tis said , do burn those men ( for whom they're shed ) ...
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... says : " This is an old English song , in the Yorkshire dialect , which was brought over to Virginia before the Revolution . It has not been writ- ten for generations , for none of the family have been able to read or write . " Miss ...
... says : " This is an old English song , in the Yorkshire dialect , which was brought over to Virginia before the Revolution . It has not been writ- ten for generations , for none of the family have been able to read or write . " Miss ...
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... says to her children : Insuite me corio cervino , deinde in sarcophago lapideo supinate , operculum plumbo et ferro ... say , ' Tis the famous Duke of Bedford , by the tide washed away . ' 3 They took him up to Portsmouth , to the place ...
... says to her children : Insuite me corio cervino , deinde in sarcophago lapideo supinate , operculum plumbo et ferro ... say , ' Tis the famous Duke of Bedford , by the tide washed away . ' 3 They took him up to Portsmouth , to the place ...
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