Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... elves.2 " In John Milesius any man may reade Of divels in Sarmatia honored , Call'd Kottri , or Kibaldi ; such as wee Pugs and Hob - goblins call . Their dwellings bee In corners of old houses least frequented , Or beneath stacks of ...
... elves.2 " In John Milesius any man may reade Of divels in Sarmatia honored , Call'd Kottri , or Kibaldi ; such as wee Pugs and Hob - goblins call . Their dwellings bee In corners of old houses least frequented , Or beneath stacks of ...
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... ELF - QUENE , with hire joly compagnie , Danced ful oft in many a grene mede . This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non ELVES mo , For now the grete charitee and prayeres Of ...
... ELF - QUENE , with hire joly compagnie , Danced ful oft in many a grene mede . This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non ELVES mo , For now the grete charitee and prayeres Of ...
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... elf - locks in foul sluttish hairs , Which , once untangled , much misfortune bodes . " 1 Ben Jonson , in his " Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althrope , " in 1603 , describes to come tripping up the lawn a bevy of fairies ...
... elf - locks in foul sluttish hairs , Which , once untangled , much misfortune bodes . " 1 Ben Jonson , in his " Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althrope , " in 1603 , describes to come tripping up the lawn a bevy of fairies ...
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... elves , To pinch those maids that had not swept their shelves : And further , if by maiden's over - sight , Within doores water were not brought at night , 1 Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares , Newcastle , 1725 , 8vo , p . 82 . Or if they ...
... elves , To pinch those maids that had not swept their shelves : And further , if by maiden's over - sight , Within doores water were not brought at night , 1 Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares , Newcastle , 1725 , 8vo , p . 82 . Or if they ...
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... elves for fear , Creep into acorn cups , and hide them there . " They uniformly and constantly wore green vests , unless when they had some reason for changing their dress . Of this circumstance we meet with many proofs . Thus , in ...
... elves for fear , Creep into acorn cups , and hide them there . " They uniformly and constantly wore green vests , unless when they had some reason for changing their dress . Of this circumstance we meet with many proofs . Thus , in ...
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