Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 27Percy Society, 1840 - English literature |
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Page 145
... women , & c . You cannot be contented to go , As did the women of old : But you are all for pride and show , As they were for weather and cold . O women , women ! fie , fie , fie , I wonder you are not ashamed , I. Oh women , & c ...
... women , & c . You cannot be contented to go , As did the women of old : But you are all for pride and show , As they were for weather and cold . O women , women ! fie , fie , fie , I wonder you are not ashamed , I. Oh women , & c ...
Page 153
... women mean good sooth , And purpose lawfull marriage , ' Tis ten to one they have ne're a tooth , And then poor man must forage . Who is so sped , is matcht with a woman , He may weep without the help of an onyon . He's an oxe , and an ...
... women mean good sooth , And purpose lawfull marriage , ' Tis ten to one they have ne're a tooth , And then poor man must forage . Who is so sped , is matcht with a woman , He may weep without the help of an onyon . He's an oxe , and an ...
Page 206
... women alone , When idler fashions they have of their own ? With ramelie wigs and muffetees . For the finical beaux we care not a fig , At us the fribbles may strut and look big , In their spencers , bobs , and ramelies ; Their wigs ...
... women alone , When idler fashions they have of their own ? With ramelie wigs and muffetees . For the finical beaux we care not a fig , At us the fribbles may strut and look big , In their spencers , bobs , and ramelies ; Their wigs ...
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