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Page 198 - Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 25 - The other he said nay; The third said it was a house, With the chimney blown away. And all the night they hunted, And nothing could they find But the moon a-gliding, A-gliding with the wind.
Page 206 - I remember to have seen a woman ducked for scolding. The chair hung by a pulley fastened to a beam about the middle of the bridge, in which the woman was confined, and let down under the water three times, and then taken out.
Page 184 - In April, the cuckoo shows his bill : In May, he sings both night and day ; In June, he altereth his tune ; In July, he prepares to fly ; Come August, go he must.
Page 23 - THREE wise men of Gotham, Went to sea in a bowl : And if the bowl had been stronger, My song would have been longer.
Page 12 - ... their sprats, and salt fish. One consulted with the other, and agreed that such fish should be cast into their pond or pool (the which was in the middle of the town), that it might increase against the next year; and every man that had any fish left, did cast them into the pool.
Page 8 - Marry,' said he that was going thither, ' I goe to that market to buy sheepe.' ' Buy sheepe!' said the other, ' and which way wilt thou bring them home ?' ' Marry,' said the other, ' I will bring them over this bridge.
Page 14 - There is one of us drowned." They went back to the brook where they had been fishing, and sought up and down for him that was wanting, making great lamentation.
Page 46 - These tales are supposed to have been composed in the early part of the sixteenth century, by Dr. Andrew Borde, the well-known progenitor of Merry Andrews. " In the time of Henry the Eighth, and after," says Ant.-a-Wood, "it was accounted a book full of wit and mirth by scholars and gentlemen.