Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 112
... poore tenant rackes , And deales extreamely in the hardest manner , There is no peace , but with the bloudy banner , They sound defiance and domesticke warre , Such peacocke - tailes , proud foolish women are . OR THUS . When men amazed ...
... poore tenant rackes , And deales extreamely in the hardest manner , There is no peace , but with the bloudy banner , They sound defiance and domesticke warre , Such peacocke - tailes , proud foolish women are . OR THUS . When men amazed ...
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... poore man ditch- ing for a groat a day , in pitty of him said , how now Iohn Tawny cote , bones a God man , thou canst never pay me with this poore labour ; come home knave , come home , I will trust thee with twenty pound more , follow ...
... poore man ditch- ing for a groat a day , in pitty of him said , how now Iohn Tawny cote , bones a God man , thou canst never pay me with this poore labour ; come home knave , come home , I will trust thee with twenty pound more , follow ...
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... poore and most bountyfull to aged people , there came to him usually twice or thrice a weeke a silly poore ould blinde man to sing under his window , for the which he continually gave him twelve pence a time . Mais- ter Hobson having ...
... poore and most bountyfull to aged people , there came to him usually twice or thrice a weeke a silly poore ould blinde man to sing under his window , for the which he continually gave him twelve pence a time . Mais- ter Hobson having ...
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