Notices of Fugitive Tracts, and Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc

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Percy Society, 1849 - 96 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 70 - When first the Year, I heard the Cuckoo sing, And call with welcome Note the budding Spring, I straightway set a running with such Haste, Deb'rah, that won the Smock, scarce ran so fast. Till spent for lack of Breath, quite weary grown, Upon a rising Bank I sat adown...
Sayfa 57 - Bacon* CONTAINING THE WONDERFUL!.' THINGS THAT HE DID IN HIS LIFE: ALSO THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH; WITH THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF THE TWO CONIUUEltS, BUNOYE AND VANDERMAST. VERY PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFULL TO BE READ.
Sayfa 58 - I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool , • On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean...
Sayfa 88 - The History of the Life and Glorious Actions of the mighty Hercules of Greece, his encountering and overthrowing serpents, lions, monsters, giants, tyrants, and powerful armies; his taking of cities, towns, kings, and kingdoms, &c.
Sayfa 27 - The Bedlam is in the same garb, with a long staff, and a cow or ox-horn by his side ; but his cloathing is more fantastick and ridiculous ; for, being a madman, he is madly decked and dressed all over with rubins, feathers, cuttings of cloth, and what not > to make him seem a mad-man, or one distracted, when he is no other than a dissembling knave.
Sayfa 52 - Warning To Rash and Disobedient CHILDREN. Being a strange and wonderful RELATION of a young Gentleman in the Parish of Stepheny in the Suburbs of London, that sold himself to the Devil for...
Sayfa 67 - THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Sayfa 57 - A STRANGE AND WONDERFUL RELATION OF THE OLD WOMAN WHO WAS DROWNED AT RATCLIFFHIGHWAY A FORTNIGHT AGO : to which is added the old woman's dream a little after her death. In two parts. 12mo. London, nd Progress, and another a portrait of Queen Elizabeth ! The following one, which is placed on the title-page, is particularly curious, as affording a representation of the manner in which the ducking-stool was suspended. Gay thus alludes to it in his Pastorals, ed.
Sayfa 66 - OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH, a song above five-hundred years old, made by the old mountain-bard, Duncan Frasier, living on Cheviot, AD 1270. Printed from an ancient manuscript. 12mo., 1785. It is unnecessary to say that this ballad is a modern fiction; but it is not generally known that it is founded on an old tradition which is still current in the north of England.

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