A Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, and Miscellaneous Articles: Belonging to the Estate of the Late John Allan, Volume 1 |
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Page 31 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 161 - Melicert, Drop from his honied muse one sable teare To mourne her death that graced his desert, And to his laies opend her Royall eare. Shepheard remember our Elizabeth, And sing her Rape, done by that Tarquin, Death.
Page 265 - THOMAS DELONEY, Chronicler of the memorable Lives of the Six yeomen of the West, JACK of Newbury, the Gentle Craft, &c., and such like honest men, omitted by STOW, HOLLINSHED, GRAFTON, HALLE, FROISSART, and all the rest of those well-deserving writers.
Page 38 - BE it ryght, or wrong, these men among On women do complayne ; Affyrmynge this, how that it is A labour spent in vayne, To love them wele ; for never a dele...
Page 52 - THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF FRYER BACON, containing the wonderfull things that he did in his life : also the manner of his death, with the lives and deaths of the two conjurers, Bungye and Vandermast. Very pleasant and delightfull to be read.
Page 30 - He took it from a black-letter copy in a private collection, compared with, and very much corrected by, a copy, contained in An Antidote against Melancholy, made up in pills compounded of witty Ballads, jovial Songs, and merry Catches, 1661.
Page 40 - King of Britaine, Wherein is declared his Life and Death, with all his glorious Battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and Pagans, which (for the honour of his Country) he most worthily atchieued.
Page 88 - The seconde part of the Mirrour for Magistrates, containing the falles of the infortunate Princes of this Lande. From the Conquest of Caesar, unto the commyng of Duke William the Conquerour. Imprinted by Richard Webster, Anno Domini. 1578. Goe straight and feare not.
Page 63 - Bartholomew Faire ; Or, Variety of fancies, where you may find A faire of wares, and all to please your mind.
Page 214 - DANIEL (SAMUEL). The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke corrected and continued by Samuel Daniel one of the Groomes of hir Maiesties most honorable Priuie Chamber.