The Roxburghe ballads . By the light 0 the moon I turn aside, And knock at the other door,(Had I not guessd that Pierrot was awake, I might ha done so before;)Quickly the Girl, how unlike the churl!comes to the window to ?ne: If the door is lockd, where I have knockd,open, for Charity! [=PourUDimdAmour: By light 0 the moon one little can see; in total dark Love is found the Tinder-box for me ; but my candle got left Pierrot tells a tale of woe,and says, by light 0 the moon, That her door was lockd when later he knockd!To me it was opened soon. Muniment Room, Nirgen
The Roxburghe ballads . By the light 0 the moon I turn aside, And knock at the other door,(Had I not guessd that Pierrot was awake, I might ha done so before;)Quickly the Girl, how unlike the churl!comes to the window to ?ne: If the door is lockd, where I have knockd,open, for Charity! [=PourUDimdAmour: By light 0 the moon one little can see; in total dark Love is found the Tinder-box for me ; but my candle got left Pierrot tells a tale of woe,and says, by light 0 the moon, That her door was lockd when later he knockd!To me it was opened soon. Muniment Room, Nirgends College. 489 Second 6roup of jl?auttcai Batia&s* , Lancelot. — Heres a simple Line of Life !—heres a small trifle of Wives !Alas! fifteen wives is nothing, eleven widows and nine maids is a simplecoming-in for one man ; and then to scape drowning thrice ; and to be in perilof my life with the edge of a feather-bed; here are simple scapes. Well, ifFortune be a woman, shes a good wench for this gear.—Merck, of Venice, ii. 2. HAD lie been well acquainted with dramatic lore, the hero of theensuing ballad might have sympathized with the forecastsdrawn from the occult study of palmistry by Launcelot Gobbo, the1 huge feeder, but merry-devil patch, who for awhile waited on the Jew that Shakespeare drew, and whose sins were notheinous (although including the indecorum of poking fun at hispoor old sand-blind father, and the abetting undutiful Jessica inher disobedience, if not also in her heartless thefts—for which wewould have had her soundly whipt, and Lorenzo pilloried as herfraudulent ac
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