Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 29Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... shoe . Place the shoes on each side of the bed , and then go to bed , saying , - " St. Agnes , that's to lovers kind , Come ease the trouble of my mind . When you are asleep , you'll fancy you hear him 68 NOTICES OF FUGITIVE TRACTS .
... shoe . Place the shoes on each side of the bed , and then go to bed , saying , - " St. Agnes , that's to lovers kind , Come ease the trouble of my mind . When you are asleep , you'll fancy you hear him 68 NOTICES OF FUGITIVE TRACTS .
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... hear the cuckoo , sit down on a bank , or any con- venient place , and pull the stocking from off your right leg , and whilst you are doing it , say : " May this to me Now lucky be . Then looking between your great toes , and you'll per ...
... hear the cuckoo , sit down on a bank , or any con- venient place , and pull the stocking from off your right leg , and whilst you are doing it , say : " May this to me Now lucky be . Then looking between your great toes , and you'll per ...
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... hear ye out , gay gamesters are so strongly allied with theives and pick - purses ; but I pray you proceed , and let me hear what sundry shifts of deceit they have to meet all well together at the close . M. That is more than I promised ...
... hear ye out , gay gamesters are so strongly allied with theives and pick - purses ; but I pray you proceed , and let me hear what sundry shifts of deceit they have to meet all well together at the close . M. That is more than I promised ...
Contents
Loyalty turnd up Trump or the Danger over | 1 |
Advice to Virgins 7 | 7 |
The Mothers Advice 13 | 13 |
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