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The next that sate to her was a fishwife of Stand on the Greene , who said her tale
was pleasant , but scarce honest : * she taxed women with too much immodestie :
to salve which , she would tell the adventures of a poore gentlewoman , that ...
The next that sate to her was a fishwife of Stand on the Greene , who said her tale
was pleasant , but scarce honest : * she taxed women with too much immodestie :
to salve which , she would tell the adventures of a poore gentlewoman , that ...
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Which she hearing , tooke up a great stone , going therewith to a pond which was
within a yards length of her house , and standing at the brink , said these words :
Oh ! blessed element of water , it is thou which wast ordained to end my misery ...
Which she hearing , tooke up a great stone , going therewith to a pond which was
within a yards length of her house , and standing at the brink , said these words :
Oh ! blessed element of water , it is thou which wast ordained to end my misery ...
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It is true ( said the Brainford fishwife ) : and since it concernes us not , let us leave
this pro and contra , let every tub stand on its owne bottom : and so our mirth and
journey ends about one time : for yonder is Kingstone , whose large and ...
It is true ( said the Brainford fishwife ) : and since it concernes us not , let us leave
this pro and contra , let every tub stand on its owne bottom : and so our mirth and
journey ends about one time : for yonder is Kingstone , whose large and ...
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| Title | Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 22 Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Percy Society Volume 22 of Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Percy Society |
| Author | Percy Society |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 May 2018 |
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