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Down his neck his reverend lockes In comelye curles did wave; And on his aged temples grewe The blossomes of the grave. - [Age] Jack Whaley had a cow, And he had nought to feed her; He took his pipe and played a tune, And bid the cow consider. - old Scotch and north of Ireland ballad [Music] When I was young and had no sense I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, And all the tunes that I could play Was, "Over the Hills and Far Away." - ballad found in the "Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs" [Music] Contented I sit with my pint and my pipe, Puffing sorrow and care far away, And surely the brow of grief nothing can wipe, Like smoking and moist'ning our clay; . . . . For tho' at my simile many may joke, Man is but a pipe--and his life but smoke. - Content and a Pipe [Tobacco] So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire. - Lord Lovel, history found in Professor Child's "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", II, 204 [Love] Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way. - Love will find out the way, found in Percy's "Reliques" [Love] Love will find out the way. - Percy's Reliques [Love] The king sits in Dunfermline town Drinking the blude-red wine. - Sir Patrick Spens [Books (First Lines)]
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