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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B.I. MAY is. me.
Williams
i can cure the hich the stich the pox the gout all
deses and comnpleases if any man as got a scolin wife my
balsom will her cure take but one drop of this upon my life
she will never scoal no more.
P. 6.
Wm. Willims 19 Hear am I the bloody Warer o have I spent my
time in bloody Wor slash cornary dam the Bibals carse
sholl I wolk ones twose thrise over the dark with out
hat stookin shart shall I bow dack to every drunkard or poud
sot no by this Etarnal sord in hand the man that is not
fit to dye is not fit to live stand delever push your pikestaf
by the Hye way hoop that man's neck is riot very big that
fears a little rope I pray M ls doldorty git me gud shir for
supper for I main to have gud shir tis not your fether fowl nor
Apple pyes I main as your chised ches crids nor crym I cant eat none
ad it ben a bit of a roceen pig I might have a chance to pic
a bone all I leve and all I lack in come my man jack and
carrid all away in my nap sack.
Wm. Solomon SO Hear comes I little man John with a sord in my
hand and if any man offend me I will make him to stand I
will cut him and slash him so smoll as the flys and send him
to jemecka to make Appel pyes
Wm. Solomon %1 Hear am I the King of France King Henry I har
is Biseing a Army a gaanst France but let him come I will
thonder him back he can not me with stand my milk wite
corls* my rid caps my yellow fethers deccar my resoralson stout
and bould
the Crown I will not spear I am the Kink of France and with my sord I will advace
Penty W My master sent me onto you ten ton of gold that
is due to him and if you dont send him is tribut home
some he in France land you see.
Wm. Solomon S3 fGo tel your master that he is yung and of
tender years not fit to come within my degree and I will send him
Three Tennas bo Is that with him he may larn to play.
- The word has been altered and blotted.
f On this ballad fragment see Child's ' Eng. and Scot. Pop. Ballads,' No. 164, ' King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France.'
P. 7.
Penty Landin $4
Hark hark wot sonding vads my ears the conquars
a porch I hear tis Henrys march tis Henry tune I now he
comes he comes victorus Henry comes with obboys Tropats fifes
and drums send from a far and sound of war foil of grief and every
wind from walk to walk from shade to shade from strim to
poolin strim comvaid thrue all the minglin of the groove thrue
all the minglin tracks of love tyrnin burnin changin Bangui full
of grfe and full of woe impashent from my Lords return
Henry Grossman Z5
Whot nuse whot nuse my lovely Page whot nuse
have you brought onto me I have brought such nuse from
the King of France that you and he will never agree for he
says you am young and of tender years not fit come hi your*
degree and he will send you three tinnes bolls that withthem you
may Learn to play
Henry Grossman S6
From yender march King Henry with all my gallent company now I have taken upon me *
char ge to govarn those poor ants that the may wolk
more
large and gether in there wonts that the may wolk more safe and bring home thire relife and keep
that wich I have from every Idol Theft but now the
King is hear I will bow down lowe my knee all those
that
ventered hear is subjeck unto me god bless the Boral King and send him a long to reain and
joy in
everything and free him from all pain i an my men and mine my Ants and all I have I command them the her mine and so the King god save.
Wm. Solomon 7
pardon pardon King Henry ten Ton of gpuld
1 will pay to thee and the finest flour that is in
all france to the rose of ingland i will give free.
P. 8.
P. Langdon 18
hear am I bing bing ho in an alter of to swing
ho did the batle folter o corced was the day that first i went
to sea to fight the french and then to run away now are i
stand with *
sord in hand and now i will fight any man
- Altered from "my" should be "his.
