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"A Patriarke Co. doth make marriages, and that is untill death depart the married folke, which is after this sort: When they come to a dead

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

Ther was a PRIORESSE, who lovede hir smalle dog, and also a SQUIRE, who mad manye songes of rappe and had TWO FAT KNIGHTES wyth him, and also a WOMAN WYTH A BABYE AND AN ACCENTE, who coud muche of plesaunte folke remedyes and TWO FOUNDLINGES who travelid all al oon, and an ANTISOCIALE ENGLISHMAN and also a gret manye EXPENDABLES.

August 21st, 2006 chaucerhathblog 2006

For the lordes here han folk of certeyn nombre, als thei may suffise: but the grete Chane hathe every day folke at his costages and expenses, as with outen nombre.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And alle tho ben at his wages: and thei ben alle weys at him, withouten the folke of his contree, that is withouten nombre.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

As folke that had nothyng vndre locke nor keye, barre, nor bolte: but altogether in the open fielde.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

And thei ben folke fulle of alle evylle condiciouns.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Also for Akoun aboveseyd gon men forthe 4 journees to the citee of Palestyn, that was of the Philistyenes, that now is clept Gaza, that is a gay cytee and a riche; and it is righte fayr, and fulle of folke, and it is a lytillle fro the see.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Belike he would have me feed among blinde folke, and I were worthy to bee thought a starke foole, if I should not prevent a manifest trechery, being intended against me.

The Decameron 2004

Then with great inhumanitie they went into the hospitall of poore and sicke folke, called the Fermorie, and tooke all the siluer vessell that the sicke folke were serued with, and raised them out of their beds, and droue them away, some with great strokes and staues, and some were cast down from the galleries.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And when he had so done, he presented his person, his ship, and his folke, to the reuerend great master, the which retained him, and set him in wages of the Religion.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003