This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...how he was robbed on Dunsmore Heath. This is quoted at length in the British Bibliographer (vol. iv. p. 100). The portion dealing with the effect the robbery had on the minstrel's spirits is thus given: --"After my robbery my memory was so decayed That I could neither sing nor talk, my wits were so dismayed, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...how he was robbed on Dunsmore Heath. This is quoted at length in the British Bibliographer (vol. iv. p. 100). The portion dealing with the effect the robbery had on the minstrel's spirits is thus given: --"After my robbery my memory was so decayed That I could neither sing nor talk, my wits were so dismayed, My audacity was gone and all my merry talk. There are some here have seen me merry as an hawk, But now I am so troubled with fancies in my mind I cannot play the merry knave according to my kind; Yet to take thought I perceive is no the next way To bring me out of debt my creditors to pay. I may well say that I had but evil hap For to lose about three-score pounds at a clap. The loss of my money did not grieve me so sore, But the talk of the people did grieve me much more. Some said I was not robbed, I was but a lying knave, It was not possible for a minstrel so much money to have. Indeed, to say the truth, it is right well known That I never had so much money of my own; But I had friends in London, whose names I can declare, That at all times would lend me two hundred pounds of ware; And with some again such friendship I found That they would lend me in money nine or ten pound. The occasion why I came in debt I shall make relation: My wife indeed is a silk-woman by her occupation; In linen cloths most chiefly was her greatest trade, And at fairs and markets she sold sale-ware which she made As shirts, smocks, and partlets, head-clothes and other things As silk thread and edgings, skirt bands and strings. At Lichfield market and Atherston good customers she found; Also at Tamworth, where I dwell, she took many a pound. When I had got my money together my debts to have paid, This sad mischance on me did fall, that cannot be denied. I thought...
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Fair. 1907-01-01. The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles. Red cloth boards. Blind stamped decoration. Previous owners stamp. Rough cut pages. 7x6.
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Small 8vo, pp. xv, 336. Appendices, index. Illustrated. (Music story series. ) Red cloth, with decorative blind-stamping, gilt lettering on spine. Unopened. Cover little scuffed at corners and spine, o/w VG.
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Very good(-) Musical notations. 336pp. 12mo, burgundy cloth; top & bottom of spine fraying, ex-lib. plate on front pasted down end-paper. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1907.
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Good. No Jacket. Complete with all illustrations. edge wear on the book. foxing and markings. age related wear. the page ends are roughly cut. text is clear and legible. a good copy for its age. [SK]
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Small 8vo. pp. 336. [Series: The Music Story ] Appendices: Literature of Minstrelsy, Song Collections, Glossary and Definitions, Chronological Table. Index. 18 illustrations. TEG, other edges uncut. Moderate wear.
