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Автор: Daniel George
Название: Merrie England, Volume II: In the Olden Time
ISBN: 9781541258952
Издательство: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1541258959
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 332
Вес: 0.44 кг.
Дата издания: 22.12.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 18
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Extract: CHAPTER I. My friends,-continued Mr. Bosky, after an approving smack of the lips, and Thanks, my kind mistress many happy returns of St. Bartlemy had testified the ballad-singers hearty relish and gratitude for the refreshing draught over which he had just suspended his well-seasoned nose, *-never may the mouths be stopped- * Thom: Brewer, my Mus: Servant, through his proneness to good fellowshippe, having attained to a very rich and rubicund nose, being reproved by a friend for his too frequent use of strong drinkes and sacke, as very pernicious to that distemper and inflammation in his nose. Nay, faith, says he, if it will not endure sacke, it is no nose for me.-L Estrange, No. 578. Mr. Jenkins. -(except with a cup of good liquor) of these musical itinerants, from whose doggrel a curious history of men and manners might be gleaned, to humour the anti-social disciples of those pious publicans who substituted their nasal twang for the solemn harmony of cathedral music; who altered St. Peters phrase, the Bishop of your souls, into the Elder ( ) of your souls; for thy kingdom come, brayed thy Commonwealth come and smuggled the water into their rum-puncheons, which they called wrestling with the spirit, and making the enemy weaker Show me the popular ballads of the time, and I will show you the temper and taste of the people. *

Merrie England, Volume II: In the Olden Time, Daniel George