Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 8Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... people accustomed to hear them . Sometimes they moralized the jests and satirical anecdotes current among the people - sometimes they adopted the fabliaux and metrical pieces of the jongleurs , or minstrels — and not unfrequently they ...
... people accustomed to hear them . Sometimes they moralized the jests and satirical anecdotes current among the people - sometimes they adopted the fabliaux and metrical pieces of the jongleurs , or minstrels — and not unfrequently they ...
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... people , these subtill spirits bewray them , and will have them openly confesse that they have done such great ... people call cunning men and wise women , to confirme all his matters , and by them teaching many remedies , that so he may ...
... people , these subtill spirits bewray them , and will have them openly confesse that they have done such great ... people call cunning men and wise women , to confirme all his matters , and by them teaching many remedies , that so he may ...
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... people become witches , and to deale by him . He doth know the corrupted humours in the bodie , which will breake out into the small pockes , or such like , and if he can procure one to come in which is even ready to have them , what a ...
... people become witches , and to deale by him . He doth know the corrupted humours in the bodie , which will breake out into the small pockes , or such like , and if he can procure one to come in which is even ready to have them , what a ...
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