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... lady . At the humbler level of popular song and ballad sheet the love the people had for their Queen hailed her as Bess : Come over the bourn , Bessy to me and I will thee take and my dear Lady make . To this she replies ' Here is my ...
... lady . At the humbler level of popular song and ballad sheet the love the people had for their Queen hailed her as Bess : Come over the bourn , Bessy to me and I will thee take and my dear Lady make . To this she replies ' Here is my ...
Page 47
... lady it was playing with fire to intrude thus on a great patron's privacy , and to publish teasing references to it in print . And he had married , been discovered and suffered the penalty . This permanent record must have incurred the ...
... lady it was playing with fire to intrude thus on a great patron's privacy , and to publish teasing references to it in print . And he had married , been discovered and suffered the penalty . This permanent record must have incurred the ...
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... lady , then the filmic ' double take ' as he spies her ' deadly toole ' . To such a figure her ' Sir Knight ' is gracious indeed , eliciting boasts from the boaster who understands her nature only as a lady of a very terrestrial court ...
... lady , then the filmic ' double take ' as he spies her ' deadly toole ' . To such a figure her ' Sir Knight ' is gracious indeed , eliciting boasts from the boaster who understands her nature only as a lady of a very terrestrial court ...
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