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When a small impression of these quaint old books issued from the Chiswick Press, many years ago, under the auspices of the late Mr. S. W. Singer, that gentleman merely designed the copies struck off for presentation to a select circle of literary friends who, like himself, fe...
¶ There was a manne on a tyme that rode v myle out of London, and had his seruaunt folowyng after hym on fote, the whiche came so nere, that the horse strake hym a great stroke...
3. Chapter 3¶ A woman there was which had had iiii husbandys. It fourtuned also that this fourth husbande dyed and was brought to chyrche vpon the bere; whom this woman folowed and made gre...
2. Chapter 2When a small impression of these quaint old books issued from the Chiswick Press, many years ago, under the auspices of the late Mr. S. W. Singer, that gentleman merely designed...
8. Chapter 8P. 60. _Of hym that payde his dette with crienge bea._--Compare the story of "the subtility of Kindlewall the lawyer repayed with the like craft," printed in _Pasquil's Jests_,...
5. Chapter 54. Chapter 41. Chapter 16. Chapter 6