A song
Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/112 (Lt 53 )
Title: A song
Author: Leveridge, Richard
Date(s): 1735 (published)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/98017
Description
Notes: (When mighty roast)
First lines: When mighty roast beif was the Englishman's food
It enobled our veins & enriched our blood
Last lines: Oh the roast beif of old England
And oh the good English roast beif
Length: 30
Verse form: 6 stanzas, aaabc (refrain)
Contents: On the diminution of the English race, changed from the days of beef-eating.
Lacks st.6 of the printed version