Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... ll grow like a wood . One a penny buns , two a penny buns , One a penny ... will fill . * This rhyme is occasionally still repeated in the north of England ... ye water often with yr wings , presage rain . " The cuckoo has picked up the ...
... ll grow like a wood . One a penny buns , two a penny buns , One a penny ... will fill . * This rhyme is occasionally still repeated in the north of England ... ye water often with yr wings , presage rain . " The cuckoo has picked up the ...
Page 42
... ll fly ; In August , go he must . * Sow peas and beans in the wane of the moon , Who soweth them sooner , he soweth ... ye planet , may rest and rise , And flourish with bearing most plentiful wise . - Tusser . " Peas and beans , sown during ...
... ll fly ; In August , go he must . * Sow peas and beans in the wane of the moon , Who soweth them sooner , he soweth ... ye planet , may rest and rise , And flourish with bearing most plentiful wise . - Tusser . " Peas and beans , sown during ...
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... ll work your wark for ever and ay ! ยง * This , and the preceding , partake more of the quality of crys , " or ... ye yeare , As if that Steven any time , tooke charge of horses heare . " Tusser , in his Five Hundred Points of Good ...
... ll work your wark for ever and ay ! ยง * This , and the preceding , partake more of the quality of crys , " or ... ye yeare , As if that Steven any time , tooke charge of horses heare . " Tusser , in his Five Hundred Points of Good ...
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