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They rarely or never stop in one place beyond thirty days , but always wandering and fugitive , as though accursed ... and had ordered them by way of penance to wander through the world for seven years together without sleeping in a bed ...
They rarely or never stop in one place beyond thirty days , but always wandering and fugitive , as though accursed ... and had ordered them by way of penance to wander through the world for seven years together without sleeping in a bed ...
That they first came out of lesser Egypt , that having defected from the Christian rule , and relapsed unto Pagan rites , some of every family were enjoined this penance to wander about the world . Or , as Aventinus delivereth ...
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O listen to the words of the poor woman who is come from a distant country ; she is of a wise people , though it has pleased the God of the sky to punish them for their sins by sending them to wander through the world .
O listen to the words of the poor woman who is come from a distant country ; she is of a wise people , though it has pleased the God of the sky to punish them for their sins by sending them to wander through the world .
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| Title | The Wind on the Heath: A Gypsy Anthology |
| Editor | John Sampson |
| Compiled by | John Sampson |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1930 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 362 pages |
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