Merrie England, Volume Ii: In The Olden Time
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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-singer's 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. Peter's 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.' *
- | Author: George Daniel, G-Ph Ballin
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Dec 22, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 332 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1541258959
- | ISBN-13: 9781541258952
- Author:
- George Daniel, G-Ph Ballin
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Dec 22, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 332 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1541258959
- ISBN-13:
- 9781541258952