Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 109
... gold and counter boxes , Made both as like in fashion and in show , As those are like to fooles , are cousned so . For when they thinke they have good gold in pawne , On which some twentie pounds away is drawne , Viewing the lyning of ...
... gold and counter boxes , Made both as like in fashion and in show , As those are like to fooles , are cousned so . For when they thinke they have good gold in pawne , On which some twentie pounds away is drawne , Viewing the lyning of ...
Page 135
... gold and counter boxes . " ] Dekker thus describes the cheating practice above alluded to by Rowlands : " This Jacke in a boxe , or this divell in man's shape , wearing ( like a player on a stage , good cloathes on his backe ) comes to ...
... gold and counter boxes . " ] Dekker thus describes the cheating practice above alluded to by Rowlands : " This Jacke in a boxe , or this divell in man's shape , wearing ( like a player on a stage , good cloathes on his backe ) comes to ...
Page 136
... gold still , he will take the white money home to fetch the rest , and make up the summe , his absence shall not bee above an houre or two : before which time hee shall bee sure to heare of him , and with this the little devil vanisheth ...
... gold still , he will take the white money home to fetch the rest , and make up the summe , his absence shall not bee above an houre or two : before which time hee shall bee sure to heare of him , and with this the little devil vanisheth ...
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