Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
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Page 62
... there was a very little taylor , sitting on a table like a t ― d [ toad ? ] on a truncher [ plate ] , with his ... there's any on the ground , seek them up and stap them in a beast's a - se , but if ye were a man I would burn thee ...
... there was a very little taylor , sitting on a table like a t ― d [ toad ? ] on a truncher [ plate ] , with his ... there's any on the ground , seek them up and stap them in a beast's a - se , but if ye were a man I would burn thee ...
Page 114
... there be than the cards being found in your pocket ? how can you speak for yourself ? JACK . My Lord , if you call ... there are four suits in the cards , that intimate the four quarters of the year ; then as there are thirteen ...
... there be than the cards being found in your pocket ? how can you speak for yourself ? JACK . My Lord , if you call ... there are four suits in the cards , that intimate the four quarters of the year ; then as there are thirteen ...
Page 292
... There's galloping this way and that , with , Madam , stand out of the way ; With , fie , Sir ! what would you be at ? come , none of your impudence , pray ! There's halt , to the right about , face ; there's laughing , and screaming ...
... There's galloping this way and that , with , Madam , stand out of the way ; With , fie , Sir ! what would you be at ? come , none of your impudence , pray ! There's halt , to the right about , face ; there's laughing , and screaming ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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