Numbers from Elizabethan Miscellanies & Song-books by Unnamed or Uncertain Authors. 1600
58. A Pedlar John Dowland's Second Book of Songs or Airs
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91 words

FINE knacks for ladies! cheap, choice, brave, and new,   Good pennyworths—but money cannot move: I keep a fair but for the Fair to view—   A beggar may be liberal of love. Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true,                     The heart is true.

Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again;   My trifles come as treasures from my mind: It is a precious jewel to be plain;   Sometimes in shell the orient'st pearls we find:— Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain!                     Of me a grain!

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Numbers from Elizabethan Miscellanies & Song-books by Unnamed or Uncertain Authors. 16th Cent.
59. Hey nonny no! Christ Church MS.
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54 words
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