Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... PART II. Chapter I. INNER cannot be long where dainties want, Where coyue is not comon, comons must be scant, In poste pase we past from potage to cheese, And yet this man cride, alas what time we leese. He would not let us pause after our repaste, But apart he pluckt me streight, and in all haste, As I of this poore yong man and poore yong maide, Or more poore yong wife, the foresaid words had saide, So praieth he me now the processe may be told, Betweene th'other yong man, and the rich widowe old. If yee lacke that, (quoth I), away ye must winde, With your whole errand, and halfe th' answer behinde. Which thing to doe, sens hast thereto shewth you loth And to hast your going, the day away goth, And that time lost, againe we cannot win, Without more losse of time, this tale I begin. In this late olde widowe, and then olde new wife, Age and appetite fell at a strong strife. Her lust was as yong as her lims were olde. The day of her wedding, liken one to be solde, She set out her selfe in fine apparell. She was made like a beere pot, or a barrell. A crooked hookde nose, beetle browde, blere eyed. Many men wisht, for beautifyng that bryde, Her waste to be gyrde in, and for a boone grace, Some well favourd visor, on her ill favourd face. But with visorlike visage, such as it was, Shee smirkt, and she smilde; but so lisped this las, That folke might have thought it done onely alone Of wantonnesse, had not her teeth been gone. Upright as a canddl standth in a socket, Stood e she that day, so simper decocket? Of auncient fathers she tooke nb cure nor care, 'So simper decocket. And gray russet rocket With simper the cocket. Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynoure Rummyng, 1520, The word means a coquettish girl. She was to them, as koy as Croker's...
