The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts, Частина 1

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Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth
Ballad Society, 1878

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Сторінка 61 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Сторінка 61 - To-morrow is Saint Crispian : ' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say ' These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day : then shall our names, Familiar in...
Сторінка 475 - Thou hast nor ear nor soul to apprehend The sublime notion and high mystery That must be uttered to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of Virginity, And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced.
Сторінка 5 - Turk: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
Сторінка 441 - tis much, that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin : so 'tis to thee; But where the greater malady is fix'd, The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear : But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea, Thou'dst meet the bear i
Сторінка 38 - that he that thoroughly understands the nature of ferments and fermentations shall probably be much better able than he that ignores them, to give a fair account of divers phenomena of several diseases (as well fevers as others), which will perhaps be never properly understood without an insight into the doctrine of fermentations.
Сторінка 214 - Is man no more than this ? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha ! here's three on's are sophisticated ! Thou art the thing itself : unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Сторінка 87 - He has made the world merry, and I hope they will make him easy so long as he stays among us. This I will take upon me to say, they cannot do a kindness to a more diverting companion, or a more cheerful, honest...
Сторінка 57 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Сторінка 211 - He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

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