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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.