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Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
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Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves; hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
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Alas, poor, ill-used, be-sugared, secreted potato, fit but for kissing-comfits! we can well understand your unpopularity.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
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Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of 'Greensleeves'; hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590
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Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
she commented on the word kissing-comfits
Sweets that make the breath pleasant.
July 11, 2008
bilby commented on the word kissing-comfits
Sounds like fun :-)
July 11, 2008