Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... frost , and thus renders the labour of the night useless . To this charge the god makes no reply , but , joined by his late opponent , Saturn , exclaims against Phoebe , whose showers they find alike prejudicial to frost and heat . She ...
... frost , and thus renders the labour of the night useless . To this charge the god makes no reply , but , joined by his late opponent , Saturn , exclaims against Phoebe , whose showers they find alike prejudicial to frost and heat . She ...
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... frost in the tail . A snow - year - a rich year . † Winter's thunder is summer's wonder . ‡ Frost and fraud both end in foul . A West wind and an honest man go to bed together . Good husbandry is good divinity . Corn and horn go ...
... frost in the tail . A snow - year - a rich year . † Winter's thunder is summer's wonder . ‡ Frost and fraud both end in foul . A West wind and an honest man go to bed together . Good husbandry is good divinity . Corn and horn go ...
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... frost , The second was snaw ; And the third as cauld , As ever't could blaw . * * These days being generally stormy , our forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance by pretending that March borrowed them from April ...
... frost , The second was snaw ; And the third as cauld , As ever't could blaw . * * These days being generally stormy , our forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance by pretending that March borrowed them from April ...
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