Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... fashion . Easterly winds and rain , Bring cockles here from Spain . A man had better ne'er been born , As have his nails on a Sunday shorn.§ * A heavy dark cloud . † A lofty conical - shaped hill in the North Riding of the county of ...
... fashion . Easterly winds and rain , Bring cockles here from Spain . A man had better ne'er been born , As have his nails on a Sunday shorn.§ * A heavy dark cloud . † A lofty conical - shaped hill in the North Riding of the county of ...
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... fashion , to wear a blue coat on the 23rd of April , in honour of St. George . " To hang an egg laid on Ascension day in the roof of an house , preserveth it from all hurts . " - Scott's Discovery of Witch- craft , p . 152 , * See a ...
... fashion , to wear a blue coat on the 23rd of April , in honour of St. George . " To hang an egg laid on Ascension day in the roof of an house , preserveth it from all hurts . " - Scott's Discovery of Witch- craft , p . 152 , * See a ...
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... fashion yt was brayde . He said , there is noe other boote , But that thou , lord , nedeth muste dye ; Harryngton harte yt was full woe , When yt woulde noe better bee . He saith , our ray breaketh on everie syde , We putt our feilde in ...
... fashion yt was brayde . He said , there is noe other boote , But that thou , lord , nedeth muste dye ; Harryngton harte yt was full woe , When yt woulde noe better bee . He saith , our ray breaketh on everie syde , We putt our feilde in ...
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