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English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 5 of 10)

Part 5 of 10 · Edited by Francis James Child · Public domain text

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Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #71104, public domain in the United States · text not rewritten or summarized · How RedLectern is built

 

Contents (14)
  1. Opening about 59 min
  2. Appendix under 1 min
  3. Part I about 2 min
  4. Part II about 2 min
  5. Part III about 2 h 43 min
  6. Appendix about 48 min
  7. Appendix about 44 min
  8. Appendix about 3 h 20 min
  9. III. , sc. 6 about 1 min
  10. V. , sc. iii; Dyce, p. 226 about 6 h 14 min
  11. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 7 of 10) about 5 h 28 min
  12. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 8 of 10) about 5 h 10 min
  13. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 9 of 10) about 2 h 51 min
  14. Appendix about 1 h 12 min

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III. , sc. 6

Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard? Thy sheepe bee in the corne; And for one blast of thy minikin mouth Thy sheepe shall take no harme.

From The Taming of the Shrew, Act iv, sc. 1, printed 1623, I, 221.

It was the friar of orders gray, As he forth walked on his way.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER

From The Knight of the Burning Pestle, produced apparently in 1611, Act ii, sc. 8; Dyce, II, 173.

She cares not for her daddy, Nor she cares not for her mammy, For she is, she is, she is, she is My lord of Lowgave’s lassy.

(Perhaps only a song.)

Give him flowers enow, palmer, give him flowers enow, Give him red and white, and blue, green, and yellow.