Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 63
... father for his knighthood's sake , Some mony - means to help him he would make : For povertie so neare him did approach , He must goe sell his horses , pawne his coach . Nay , God forbid , qd . good - man Grunt , his father , Ile zell ...
... father for his knighthood's sake , Some mony - means to help him he would make : For povertie so neare him did approach , He must goe sell his horses , pawne his coach . Nay , God forbid , qd . good - man Grunt , his father , Ile zell ...
Page 19
... father in the eare and said , Father , where is the same man , that ye said should bee my husband ? Thus may you see ( quoth Maister Hobson ) the nature of women kind , and how long they mourne for their husbandes after they bee dead ...
... father in the eare and said , Father , where is the same man , that ye said should bee my husband ? Thus may you see ( quoth Maister Hobson ) the nature of women kind , and how long they mourne for their husbandes after they bee dead ...
Page xxii
... father having knocked down the ox roasted on the river in the great frost , 1684 , as himself did that roasted in 1715 , near Hungerford Stairs . The beast is to be fixt to a stake in the open market , and Mr. Hodgeson comes dress'd in ...
... father having knocked down the ox roasted on the river in the great frost , 1684 , as himself did that roasted in 1715 , near Hungerford Stairs . The beast is to be fixt to a stake in the open market , and Mr. Hodgeson comes dress'd in ...
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