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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... WIFE LIVING IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD : taken down in short - hand by a nimble penman , one of his boon companions . 8vo . Bow Churchyard , n.d. Husband . Good wife , be pacified ; don't expose yourself and me before company . These are all ...
... WIFE LIVING IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD : taken down in short - hand by a nimble penman , one of his boon companions . 8vo . Bow Churchyard , n.d. Husband . Good wife , be pacified ; don't expose yourself and me before company . These are all ...
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... wife is faire , there- fore hee thinketh her false ; of a wittie disposition , therefore hee deemeth her a wagge - taile : all that speake to her , hee thinketh wooe her , and every man that looketh on her , he judgeth loves her : let ...
... wife is faire , there- fore hee thinketh her false ; of a wittie disposition , therefore hee deemeth her a wagge - taile : all that speake to her , hee thinketh wooe her , and every man that looketh on her , he judgeth loves her : let ...
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... wife hang herselfe upon a figge tree , desired a slippe thereof to graft , hoping it would beare more such fruite , meaning his wife . The toylsomest burden that combreth a man , as he certified who , when the rest of his companie cast ...
... wife hang herselfe upon a figge tree , desired a slippe thereof to graft , hoping it would beare more such fruite , meaning his wife . The toylsomest burden that combreth a man , as he certified who , when the rest of his companie cast ...
Contents
Loyalty turnd up Trump or the Danger over | 1 |
Advice to Virgins 7 | 7 |
The Mothers Advice 13 | 13 |
Copyright | |
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