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 52
... keep my pack for the damage I had done : whereupon , I took his servants witnesses he had robbed me ; when hearing me urge him so , he gave me my pack again , and off I came to the next house , where I told the whole story . My next ...
... keep my pack for the damage I had done : whereupon , I took his servants witnesses he had robbed me ; when hearing me urge him so , he gave me my pack again , and off I came to the next house , where I told the whole story . My next ...
Page 76
... keep my pipe in fashion . And a wae betide that Wilkite crew , who sow'd this curs'd sedition ; And puff'd the Yankies to this pitch , to keep awa ' our sneeshin . Oh hon , O rie ! Oh hon , O rie ! we're witch'd , or it's inchanted ...
... keep my pipe in fashion . And a wae betide that Wilkite crew , who sow'd this curs'd sedition ; And puff'd the Yankies to this pitch , to keep awa ' our sneeshin . Oh hon , O rie ! Oh hon , O rie ! we're witch'd , or it's inchanted ...
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... keep time and regularity : - but she should not be like a town - clock , to speak so loud that all the town may hear ... Keeping it all in the family . This satire on rusticity clearly originated south of the Tweed , but the author and ...
... keep time and regularity : - but she should not be like a town - clock , to speak so loud that all the town may hear ... Keeping it all in the family . This satire on rusticity clearly originated south of the Tweed , but the author and ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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