Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 27Percy Society, 1840 - English literature |
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Page 170
... short hairs , His little band , and huge long ears , That this new faith has founded ? The Puritans were never such , The saints themselves had ne'er so much , - Oh such a knave's a Roundhead ! " It is recorded that these men guessed ...
... short hairs , His little band , and huge long ears , That this new faith has founded ? The Puritans were never such , The saints themselves had ne'er so much , - Oh such a knave's a Roundhead ! " It is recorded that these men guessed ...
Page 214
Percy Society. Which now , by the vamping and turning , did grow as Short as that old cloak which Paul pledg'd at Troas . When Joseph betook unto him then a wife , The cloak he bestow'd unto her for her life , As being too short , not ...
Percy Society. Which now , by the vamping and turning , did grow as Short as that old cloak which Paul pledg'd at Troas . When Joseph betook unto him then a wife , The cloak he bestow'd unto her for her life , As being too short , not ...
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... short , body'd gown . This humorous dress that's now call'd the mode , Surpasses all fashions that e'er was in vogue , There's not a young miss in the country all round , But must be stuff'd up in a short body'd gown . Last Midsummer ...
... short , body'd gown . This humorous dress that's now call'd the mode , Surpasses all fashions that e'er was in vogue , There's not a young miss in the country all round , But must be stuff'd up in a short body'd gown . Last Midsummer ...
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