Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... Thou sittest at the ale house heere , While I at home doe spare , Not caring , ( so thy guts be full ) How thy poore ... thou doest deserve . Out , filthy beast , I loath thy lookes , And hate thee like a toad ; Drunke ev'ry day ...
... Thou sittest at the ale house heere , While I at home doe spare , Not caring , ( so thy guts be full ) How thy poore ... thou doest deserve . Out , filthy beast , I loath thy lookes , And hate thee like a toad ; Drunke ev'ry day ...
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... Thou hat'st a drunkard's vice , ( which hate is good ) , Yet wilt deceive , pretending brother - hood . Thou doest condemne the prodigals expence , Yet wilt embrace the usurer's offence ; And , in a word , thou think'st it may suffice , If ...
... Thou hat'st a drunkard's vice , ( which hate is good ) , Yet wilt deceive , pretending brother - hood . Thou doest condemne the prodigals expence , Yet wilt embrace the usurer's offence ; And , in a word , thou think'st it may suffice , If ...
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... thou art like to have nothing ( quoth his maister ) and learne this of me , when so ever thou makest a bargaine with any man , looke that thou take a wrighting for thy security , and be wel advised how thou givest thy bond to any man ...
... thou art like to have nothing ( quoth his maister ) and learne this of me , when so ever thou makest a bargaine with any man , looke that thou take a wrighting for thy security , and be wel advised how thou givest thy bond to any man ...
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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