Anecdotes and Traditions, Illustrative of Early English History, Derived from Ms. Sources

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William John Thoms
Camden Society, 1839 - 166 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 2 - What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid ? ' Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Σελίδα 81 - Sirftt, which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and describe to be finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Σελίδα 24 - Your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Σελίδα 84 - COCKLE BREAD Young wenches [Aubrey loquitur] have a wanton sport which they call moulding of Cockle-bread, viz., they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dowgh, and say these words, viz. : My dame is sick and gonne to bed, And I'le go mould my Cockle-bread.
Σελίδα 40 - ... What d'ye buy ? For here it is to be sold." I have beauty, honour, grace, Fortune, favour, time, and place, And what else thou wouldst request, E'en the thing thou likest best ; First let me have but a touch of your gold. Then come to me, lad, Thou shalt have What thy dad Never gave ; For here it is sold.
Σελίδα 19 - Jonson was at a tavern, and in comes bishop Corbet (but not so then) into the next, room. Ben Jonson calls for a quart of raw wine, and gives it to the tapster ; Sirrah !' says he, ' carry this to the gentleman in the next chamber, and tell him I sacrifice my service to him.
Σελίδα 16 - And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the Acts of Solomon ? And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
Σελίδα 24 - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you s to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Σελίδα 95 - CHAPTER XXXIV The king, therefore, for his defence Against the furious queen, At Woodstock builded such a bower As never yet was seen. Most curiously that bower was built, Of stone and timber strong ; An hundred and fifty doors Did to this bower belong : And they so cunningly contrived, With turnings round about, That none but with a clew of thread Could enter in or out.

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