Notes about Notts: A Collection of Singular Sayings, Curious Customs, Eccentric Epitaphs, and Interesting Items, Historical and Antiquarian

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T. Forman, 1874 - 172 pagine
 

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Pagina 53 - A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.
Pagina 130 - Rufford records can declare, His actions, who for seventy year, Both drew and drank its potent beer ; Fame mentions not in all that time, In this great Butler the least crime, To stain his reputation. To envy's self we now appeal, If aught of fault she can reveal, To make her declaration.
Pagina 53 - The little smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can.
Pagina 77 - This Swithin was a saint, I trow, And Winchester's bishop also. Who in his time did many a feat, As popish legends do repeat: A woman having broke her eggs By stumbling at another's legs, For which she made a woful cry, St.
Pagina 11 - And so is the south side. But the moste bewtifullest part and gallant building for lodgyng is on the northe side, wher Edward the 4. began a right sumptuus pece of stone work, of the which he clerely finichid one excellent goodly toure of 3 hightes yn building, and brought up the other part likewise from the foundation with stone, and mervelus fair cumpacid windoes to layyrig of the first soyle for chambers and ther lefte.
Pagina 77 - How, if on Swithin's feast the welkin lours, And every penthouse streams with hasty showers, Twice twenty days shall clouds their fleeces drain, And wash the pavements with incessant rain. Let not such vulgar tales debase thy mind ; Nor Paul nor Swithin rule the clouds and wind. If you the precepts of the Muse despise, And slight the faithful warning of the skies, Others you'll see, when all the town's afloat, Wrapt in th...
Pagina 76 - No man may compare with Robin Hood, With Robin Hood, Scathlocke and John ; Their like was never, nor never will be, If in case that they were gone. They will not away from merry Shirwood, In any place else to dwell : For there is neither city nor towne, That likes them halfe so well.
Pagina 75 - If you have several suits of the gay green silk, And silken bowstrings two or three, Then it's by my body,' cries Little John, ' One half your pack shall belong to me.
Pagina 148 - Now by my faith, said he, even as much wit is in your heads to strive for that thing you have not.

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