Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... meaning you may understand . Or with acquittance else to you he ' s sent From such a lord , or lady , for some rent , Having their hands so cunning counterfait , Many are wronged with most false deceit . But Plutoe's pen - man you did ...
... meaning you may understand . Or with acquittance else to you he ' s sent From such a lord , or lady , for some rent , Having their hands so cunning counterfait , Many are wronged with most false deceit . But Plutoe's pen - man you did ...
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... meaning Fable , with deep art perplex'd , With striking ease unravel'd : no thin plot Seen thro ' at once and scorn'd ; or ill conceal'd By borrow'd aids of mimickry and farce . His Characters strong - featur'd , equal , just , From ...
... meaning Fable , with deep art perplex'd , With striking ease unravel'd : no thin plot Seen thro ' at once and scorn'd ; or ill conceal'd By borrow'd aids of mimickry and farce . His Characters strong - featur'd , equal , just , From ...
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... meaning he did know ; Besides all this a thing more strange and rare Than all the things were seen in Freezland fair , An ox was roasted whole , which thousands saw , For ' twas not many dayes before the thaw ; The like by no man in ...
... meaning he did know ; Besides all this a thing more strange and rare Than all the things were seen in Freezland fair , An ox was roasted whole , which thousands saw , For ' twas not many dayes before the thaw ; The like by no man in ...
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ALEXANDER DYCE Bankes BAY HORSE booth bull-baiting coaches Congreve cunning devill divell dost doth downe drinke Duchess of Marlborough F.S.A. THOMAS fashion feare fellow foole Frost Fair frozen gentleman George Berkeley grace gull haberdasher hand Harts hast hath heare heart heere hell honest horse husband I'le Iohn kind landlord live London London Bridge Lord Maister Hob Mandilions Marocco merry mony ne're neighbours never Percy Society PETER CUNNINGHAM poem poet poore pray printed purse Queene quoth Maister Hobson River Thames roasted Rowlands sayd sayes scurvy servant shew shillings shore sweare taverne tearme thaw thee theeves there's thing thinke Thomson tobacco tract trade tricks twas unto villaine ware weare wench whome whore wife WILLIAM WILLIAM CHAPPELL William Congreve WILLIAM SANDYS wine withall wonder