Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... seen soon enough when it comes . A Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin . Go to bed with the lamb , and rise with the lark . Blow the wind never so fast , it will lower at last . It's an ill wind that blows nobody good ...
... seen soon enough when it comes . A Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin . Go to bed with the lamb , and rise with the lark . Blow the wind never so fast , it will lower at last . It's an ill wind that blows nobody good ...
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... seen is long thought of . After a storm comes a calm . It does not rain but it pours down . Drought never bred dearth in England . No weather is ill , if the wind be still . A green winter makes a fat church - yard . * Hail brings frost ...
... seen is long thought of . After a storm comes a calm . It does not rain but it pours down . Drought never bred dearth in England . No weather is ill , if the wind be still . A green winter makes a fat church - yard . * Hail brings frost ...
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... seen , In London all that they will bee ; Thou shalt in England be a queen , Or else doubtless that they will dye . Thus they proceed forth the winter then , Their councell they kept close all three , The earle he wrought by prophecy ...
... seen , In London all that they will bee ; Thou shalt in England be a queen , Or else doubtless that they will dye . Thus they proceed forth the winter then , Their councell they kept close all three , The earle he wrought by prophecy ...
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