Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... wind . God tempers the storm to the shorn lamb . Grass never grows when the wind blows . Lose not a hog for a halfpennyworth of tar . GENERAL PROVERBS IN RHYME . A SOUTHERLY Wind and a 7.
... wind . God tempers the storm to the shorn lamb . Grass never grows when the wind blows . Lose not a hog for a halfpennyworth of tar . GENERAL PROVERBS IN RHYME . A SOUTHERLY Wind and a 7.
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Percy Society. When the sun sets in a bank , * A westerly wind we shall not want . When Roseberry Topping wears a cap ... winds and rain , Bring cockles here from Spain . A man had better ne'er been born , As have his nails on a Sunday ...
Percy Society. When the sun sets in a bank , * A westerly wind we shall not want . When Roseberry Topping wears a cap ... winds and rain , Bring cockles here from Spain . A man had better ne'er been born , As have his nails on a Sunday ...
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... Wind East or West , Is a sign of a blast ; Wind North or South , Is a sign of drought . † A leap year , Is never a good sheep year . When the wind is in the North , The skilful fisher goes not forth . To talk of the weather , it's ...
... Wind East or West , Is a sign of a blast ; Wind North or South , Is a sign of drought . † A leap year , Is never a good sheep year . When the wind is in the North , The skilful fisher goes not forth . To talk of the weather , it's ...
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