Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 37
... wife , What would content him for his paines ? Who of an honest minde , Did answer thus : I see y'are poore , Therefore I'le use you kinde . I'le take but forty shillings , friend , With that I'le be content . Why then , qd . Smug ...
... wife , What would content him for his paines ? Who of an honest minde , Did answer thus : I see y'are poore , Therefore I'le use you kinde . I'le take but forty shillings , friend , With that I'le be content . Why then , qd . Smug ...
Page 65
... wife next day doth take the same , According to her use ; And filling out the wine therein , Perceiving the abuse , Smiles to her selfe , then drinkes it off , And fils it out againe , And that she turneth likewise downe , In a ...
... wife next day doth take the same , According to her use ; And filling out the wine therein , Perceiving the abuse , Smiles to her selfe , then drinkes it off , And fils it out againe , And that she turneth likewise downe , In a ...
Page 74
... wife , From head to foote just of the sluttish size , Came home at noone his hunger to suffice , Looking what dyet his kinde wife did keepe : Just where he left her , found her fast a sleepe : So he entreates her rise and give him meate ...
... wife , From head to foote just of the sluttish size , Came home at noone his hunger to suffice , Looking what dyet his kinde wife did keepe : Just where he left her , found her fast a sleepe : So he entreates her rise and give him meate ...
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