Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... verse runs thus : - " Oh , valiant invaders , gallantly gaie , Who , with your compeeres , conquering the route , Castels , or towr's , all standynge in your waie , Ye take , controlling all estates most stoute , Yet had it now been ...
... verse runs thus : - " Oh , valiant invaders , gallantly gaie , Who , with your compeeres , conquering the route , Castels , or towr's , all standynge in your waie , Ye take , controlling all estates most stoute , Yet had it now been ...
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... verse between two or more characters on some particular topic or opinion . Productions of this kind could never be popular , and it is therefore not surprising that only one of them , by him , should have descended to us , and that in ...
... verse between two or more characters on some particular topic or opinion . Productions of this kind could never be popular , and it is therefore not surprising that only one of them , by him , should have descended to us , and that in ...
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... verse is repeated by country maidens at the first appearance of the new moon next after New Year's Day , -though some are so ignorant as to say that any other new moon is equally as good , —in order that they may see their future ...
... verse is repeated by country maidens at the first appearance of the new moon next after New Year's Day , -though some are so ignorant as to say that any other new moon is equally as good , —in order that they may see their future ...
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