Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Reacreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots, Volume 1Charles Swan C. and J. Rivington, 1824 - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern |
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... sent for sale to some factor in distant parts , might have this person's name and resi- dence affixed , not from any dishonest motive , but merely to announce the place in which they were to be sold . Such a supposition is not beyond ...
... sent for sale to some factor in distant parts , might have this person's name and resi- dence affixed , not from any dishonest motive , but merely to announce the place in which they were to be sold . Such a supposition is not beyond ...
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... sent forth his letters to the king of Hungary , praying him if it might please him to stay seven years for the love of his daughter , and then he should speed without fail . Herewith the king was pleased and content to stay the prefixed ...
... sent forth his letters to the king of Hungary , praying him if it might please him to stay seven years for the love of his daughter , and then he should speed without fail . Herewith the king was pleased and content to stay the prefixed ...
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... sent forth his letters to the king of Hungary , praying him if it might please him to stay seven years for the love of his daughter , and then he should speed without fail . Herewith the king was pleased and content to stay the prefixed ...
... sent forth his letters to the king of Hungary , praying him if it might please him to stay seven years for the love of his daughter , and then he should speed without fail . Herewith the king was pleased and content to stay the prefixed ...
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... sent his messengers to the emperor , saying , that he would fulfil his desire in all things , if it might please his highness , that his son and the king's daughter might be married together . All this well pleased 6 INTRODUCTION . xci.
... sent his messengers to the emperor , saying , that he would fulfil his desire in all things , if it might please his highness , that his son and the king's daughter might be married together . All this well pleased 6 INTRODUCTION . xci.
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... sent again , saying , If his daughter were a clean virgin from her birth unto that day , he would consent to that marriage . Then was the king right glad , for his daughter was a clean virgin . " Therefore , when the letters of covenant ...
... sent again , saying , If his daughter were a clean virgin from her birth unto that day , he would consent to that marriage . Then was the king right glad , for his daughter was a clean virgin . " Therefore , when the letters of covenant ...
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