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Page 16
... tell you an ensaumple of a woman that ete the good morsell in the absence of her husbonde . Ther was a woman that had a pie in a cage , that spake and wolde tell talys that she saw do . And so it happed that her husbonde made kepe a ...
... tell you an ensaumple of a woman that ete the good morsell in the absence of her husbonde . Ther was a woman that had a pie in a cage , that spake and wolde tell talys that she saw do . And so it happed that her husbonde made kepe a ...
Page 357
... tell me what thou seest . I see , said I , a huge Valley and a prodigious Tide of Water rolling through it . The Valley that thou seest , said he , is the Vale of Misery , and the Tide of Water that thou seest is part of the great Tide ...
... tell me what thou seest . I see , said I , a huge Valley and a prodigious Tide of Water rolling through it . The Valley that thou seest , said he , is the Vale of Misery , and the Tide of Water that thou seest is part of the great Tide ...
Page 390
... tell stories in company ; there is nothing more tedious and disagreeable : if by chance you know a very short story , and exceedingly applicable to the present subject of conversation , tell it in as few words as possible ; and even ...
... tell stories in company ; there is nothing more tedious and disagreeable : if by chance you know a very short story , and exceedingly applicable to the present subject of conversation , tell it in as few words as possible ; and even ...
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