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Old and New London
… not one now remains "the sad historian of the pensive tale" of bygone mirth and merriment. The jests have passed … tumbling propensity occurs in Butler's "Remains," in the tale of the "Cobbler and the Vicar of Bray:" "What's worse, …
Old and New London
… absolutely necessary in every popular work, an appropriate tale was to be put into the mouth of each of the pilgrims. It … London and Canterbury, if each pilgrim were to tell one tale going and returning also, and that the one who should tell the best tale should have a supper at the inn at the expense of the …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… Italian fashion, so that very few will live to tell the tale. The victory, however, was dearly bought, for the …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… he confessed without torture a circumstantial and likely tale concerning his mission to France and the message he …