Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 27Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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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 ! So home in the evening Miss Sally she hies , And told it her mother with greatest surprize , Saying , " Two hanks a - day I will spin the week round , Until I can purchase a short body'd gown . " The mother surpriz'd ...
... short body'd gown ! So home in the evening Miss Sally she hies , And told it her mother with greatest surprize , Saying , " Two hanks a - day I will spin the week round , Until I can purchase a short body'd gown . " The mother surpriz'd ...
Contents
SATIRICAL SONGS AND POEMS ON COSTUME | 1 |
THE MERCER 7 | 7 |
THE SHOEMAKER 16 | 16 |
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