Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... winter makes a fat church - yard . * Hail brings 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 ...
... winter makes a fat church - yard . * Hail brings 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 ...
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... Winter will have another flight . If Candlemas - day is fair and clear , There'll be two winters in the year . ‡ If Candlemas - day be clouds and rain , Winter is gone , and will not come again . # 66 Soulegrove sil lew , " is an ...
... Winter will have another flight . If Candlemas - day is fair and clear , There'll be two winters in the year . ‡ If Candlemas - day be clouds and rain , Winter is gone , and will not come again . # 66 Soulegrove sil lew , " is an ...
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... winter's to come and mair [ more ] . If Candlemas - day be wet and foul , The half of winter's gone at Yule . * February , if ye be fair , The sheep will mend , and nothing mair ; February , if ye be foul , t The sheep will die in every ...
... winter's to come and mair [ more ] . If Candlemas - day be wet and foul , The half of winter's gone at Yule . * February , if ye be fair , The sheep will mend , and nothing mair ; February , if ye be foul , t The sheep will die in every ...
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agayne anon Bessie Bessye betwene brynge Candlemas countrey cowntrye dede devyll doth Earle of Derbye Earle Richmond eche England fair father Stanley fayth Frere fyre fyrst gold graunt gyve hart hast hath Heywood Humfrey Breerton Humphrey Brereton JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL JEROME JOHN HEYWOOD King Richard kynde Kynge lady lett loke London Lord Strange Lover loved lover nor loved Mary mayster merry Mery mules three myght never night nyghte Pardo Percy Society play plesewrs pray praye proverb prynce rain schall seae shalbe shee shyne Sir John Savage Sir William Stanley Somer sonne sott soule staind sweet syns tell thee theyr thou shalt thowsand thyngs thynk truely twayne tyme Vertue weather whyche whyt wind wolde words wyfe wyll wynde wyse wytt wyttles wytty yere yf ye Yule