Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... heads of wonderfull little quantity , allegit to be the banes of the said Pigmies , quhilk may be lykely , according to sundry historys that we reid of the Pigmies : but i leave this far of it to the ancients of Lewis . " 1 The inland ...
... heads of wonderfull little quantity , allegit to be the banes of the said Pigmies , quhilk may be lykely , according to sundry historys that we reid of the Pigmies : but i leave this far of it to the ancients of Lewis . " 1 The inland ...
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... head ; And for the maid that had perform'd each thing , She in the water - pail bad leave a ring . " The same poet , in his " Shepheard's Pipe , " having inserted Hoccleve's tale of " Jonathas , " and con- ceiving a strange , unnatural ...
... head ; And for the maid that had perform'd each thing , She in the water - pail bad leave a ring . " The same poet , in his " Shepheard's Pipe , " having inserted Hoccleve's tale of " Jonathas , " and con- ceiving a strange , unnatural ...
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... head . " L'Abbé Bourdelon , in his " Ridiculous Extrava- gances of M. Oufle , " describes " the fairies , of which , " he says , " grandmothers and nurses tell so many tales to children ; these fairies , " adds he , " I mean , who are ...
... head . " L'Abbé Bourdelon , in his " Ridiculous Extrava- gances of M. Oufle , " describes " the fairies , of which , " he says , " grandmothers and nurses tell so many tales to children ; these fairies , " adds he , " I mean , who are ...
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... head , fier in his mouth , and a taile in his breech , eies like a bason , fanges like a dog , clawes like a beare , a skin like a niger , and a voice roaring like a lion , whereby we start , and are 1 Epithalamium . afraid when we ...
... head , fier in his mouth , and a taile in his breech , eies like a bason , fanges like a dog , clawes like a beare , a skin like a niger , and a voice roaring like a lion , whereby we start , and are 1 Epithalamium . afraid when we ...
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... head . But if a Peter- penny , or an housle - egge were behind , or a patch of tythe unpaid , then ' ware of bull - beggars , spirits , & c . " This frolicsome spirit thus describes himself in Jonson's masque of " Love Restored ...
... head . But if a Peter- penny , or an housle - egge were behind , or a patch of tythe unpaid , then ' ware of bull - beggars , spirits , & c . " This frolicsome spirit thus describes himself in Jonson's masque of " Love Restored ...
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