Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page lxxi
... devyll and I were of olde acqueyntaunce ; For oft , in the play of corpus Cristi , He hath playd the devyll at Coventry . * By his acqueyntaunce and my behavoure , He shewed to me ryght frendly favoure , And to make my returne the ...
... devyll and I were of olde acqueyntaunce ; For oft , in the play of corpus Cristi , He hath playd the devyll at Coventry . * By his acqueyntaunce and my behavoure , He shewed to me ryght frendly favoure , And to make my returne the ...
Page lxxii
... devyll of hell , To all the devyls that there do dwell , And every of them we sende gretynge , Under streyght charge and commaundynge , That they aydynge and assystent be To suche a Pardoner , and named me , So that he may at lybertie ...
... devyll of hell , To all the devyls that there do dwell , And every of them we sende gretynge , Under streyght charge and commaundynge , That they aydynge and assystent be To suche a Pardoner , and named me , So that he may at lybertie ...
Page lxxv
... devyll here that can come thyther , Shall chose a soule and brynge him byther . Ho , ho , quoth the devyll , we are well pleased ; What is hys name thou woldest have eased ? Nay , quoth I , be it good or evyll , My comynge is for a she ...
... devyll here that can come thyther , Shall chose a soule and brynge him byther . Ho , ho , quoth the devyll , we are well pleased ; What is hys name thou woldest have eased ? Nay , quoth I , be it good or evyll , My comynge is for a she ...
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