Torrent of Portugal: An English Metrical Romance. Now First Published from an Unique Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, Preserved in the Chetham Library at Manchester

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James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
J.R. Smith, 1842 - English poetry - 120 pages

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Page 115 - The Harrowing of Hell, a Miracle Play, written in the Reign of Edward II., now first published from the Original in the British Museum, with a Modern Reading, Introduction, and Notes, by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq.
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Page 119 - Ecclesiastical Documents : viz. — 1. A brief History of the Bishoprick of Somerset from its Foundation to 1174.
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Page 119 - A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the reign of Edward IV., by John Warkworth, DD Edited by JO Halliwell. 11. Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder, performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich.
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Page 115 - Post 8vo, 1». *These tales are supposed to have been composed in the early part of the sixteenth century, by Dr. Andrew Borde, the well-known progenitor of Merry Andrews. •• In the time of Henry the Eighth, and after," says Ant. -a- Wood, "it was accounted a book full of wit and mirth by scholars and gentlemen.
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Page 114 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes, nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.

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