The Parish Clerk (1907) by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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And as well could he play on a gitern.[17]
In all the town was brewhouse nor tavern That he not visited with his solas,[18] There as that any gaillard tapstere[19] was. This Absolon, that jolly was and gay Went with a censor on the holy day, Censing the wivës of the parish fast: And many a lovely look he on them cast, * * * * * Sometimes to show his lightness and mast'ry He playeth Herod on a scaffold high." [Footnote 6: Called.] [Footnote 7: Stretched.] [Footnote 8: Head of hair.] [Footnote 9: Complexion.] [Footnote 10: His shoes were decked with an ornament like a rose-window in old St. Paul's.] [Footnote 11: Daintily.] [Footnote 12: A kind of cloth.] [Footnote 13: A bush.] |
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