Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... weare not sutes to counterfet a lord . Sir , quoth the hangman , doe not so disdaine me ; Such swaggerers as you doe thus maintaine me ; For I upon my backe their kindness beare , And they about their necks my favours weare . The ...
... weare not sutes to counterfet a lord . Sir , quoth the hangman , doe not so disdaine me ; Such swaggerers as you doe thus maintaine me ; For I upon my backe their kindness beare , And they about their necks my favours weare . The ...
Page 47
... we are wrong'd , and thus we are agriev'd , And thus long time we have beene unreliev'd , But , card - makers , of you Harts reason craves , Why we should be restraind , above all knaves , To weare such patched and disguis'd attire ...
... we are wrong'd , and thus we are agriev'd , And thus long time we have beene unreliev'd , But , card - makers , of you Harts reason craves , Why we should be restraind , above all knaves , To weare such patched and disguis'd attire ...
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... weare , From others for to know his proud ones by , This is the cause that makes him looke so hie . An asse that knowes not all the cloaths we weare Against our parents ' fall doe witness beare , And we that had gone naked , weare the ...
... weare , From others for to know his proud ones by , This is the cause that makes him looke so hie . An asse that knowes not all the cloaths we weare Against our parents ' fall doe witness beare , And we that had gone naked , weare the ...
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