Strange Survivals, Some Chapters in the History of Man Baring-.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books: North.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1892 Excerpt: ... Broaosfoe Ballaos. "I LOVE a ballad in print, a' life," said Mopsa, in the "Winter's Tale," and the clown confessed to the same liking. "I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter merrily set down,or a very pleasant thingindced,and sung lamentably." In 1653, Dorothy Osborne tells Sir William Temple that she has received from her brother a ballad "much older than my' Lord of Lome/ and she sends it on to him." Would that she had told us more about it. And then she writes, "The heat of the day is spent in reading or working, and about six or seven o'clock I walk out into a common that lies hard by the house, where a great many young wenches keep sheep and cows, and sit in the shade singing of ballads. I go to them and compare their voices and beauties to some ancient shepherdesses that I have read of, and find a vast difference there; but, trust me, I think these are.as innocent as those could be. I talk to them, and find they want nothing to make them the happiest people in the world but the knowledge that they are so." Fig. 37.--BALLAD SINGER, FROM A BROADSIDE, Walton in his "Complete Angler," printed in the very same year in which Dorothy Osborne wrote to her lover of the singing peasant girls, says: "I entered into the next field, and a second pleasure entertained me: 'twas a handsome milk-maid, that had cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale; her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milk-maid's mother, sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger dayes." We know what the song was, " Come, live with me and be my love." The mother says to Walton, "If you will but speak the word, I will make you a good silla... Hardcover, Label: Gale Group, Gale Group, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1968-06, Studio: Gale Group, Verkaufsrang: 17950233.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books On The Run, FL, Ocala, [RE:4].
1968 hardcover no dj exlibrary withdrawn stamp on edge clean text now reissued by singing tree press 287 pages: F-9. Jun 01, 1968.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, CONTINENTAL MEDIA & BEYOND [53636354], Ocala, FL, U.S.A.
1968 hardcover no dj exlibrary withdrawn stamp on edge clean text now reissued by singing tree press 287 pages:::F-9.

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Strange-Survivals~~Sabine-Baring-Gould, Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man, Hardcover.