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"Eh! it be about zeven mile, zur," was the answer, in the broad Yorkshire dialect of the district. "Seven miles!" exclaimed the major, in a tone of deep disappointment, "and my horse is already blown! My good fellow, can't you put my horse somewhere, and give me a bed? I will pay you liberally for your trouble." "Eh! goodness zakes!" said the rustic. "I be nought but a ditcher!
By Nienburg, Verden, Rothenburg, Zeven, Bremenvorde, Stade; arrived at Stade, on the tidal Waters of the Elbe, August 5th; and by necessity did halt there.
But there is a grete weye from that on to that othre, and a gret deep valeye betwene hem. Of the desert bet wen e the chirche of Seynte Kateryne and Jerusalem. Of the drie Tre; and how roses cam first in the world. And than wil thei take leve of the monkes, and recommenden hem to here preyeres. And than thei zeven the pilgrimes of here vitaylle, for to passe with the desertes, toward Surrye.
Darco did, in the main, his own marketing. He had sent home sausages for breakfast, seven in number. Six came to table. 'Vere is my other zausage, cries Darco. 'There vere zeven. Now there are six. Vere is my other zausage? 'Really you know, sir, says Mrs. Brace. 'Sausages do shrink so in the cooking.
And aftre thei maken to come in, other damyselles, bryngynge coupes of gold, fulle of mylk of dyverse bestes, and zeven drynke to lordes and to ladyes.
How men knowen be the Ydole, zif the sike schalle dye or non. Of folk of dyverse schap and merveylously disfigured: And of the Monkes, that zeven hire releef to Babewynes, Apes and Marmesettes and to other Bestes. In that yle ben folk of dyverse kyndes; so that the fadre etethe the sone, the sone the fadre, the husbonde the wif, and the wif the husbonde.
In that contree ben manye chirches of religious men, and of here lawe: and in tho chirches been ydoles, als grete as geauntes. And to theise ydoles thei zeven to ete, at grete festyfulle dayes, in this manere.
And to alle the lordes of the emperoures lynage, eche aftre other, as ben of estate. And whan thei ben alle cleped, thei entren eche aftre other, and presentenen the white hors to the emperour; and than gon hire wey. And than aftre, alle the other barouns every of hem zeven hem presentes, or juelle, or sum other thing, aftre that thei ben of estate.
"'Any Justice of the King's Peace, good people, to be found near here? said the gentleman, lifting his hat to us, and very gracious in his manner. "'Your honour, saith Bill, with his hat off his head; 'there be sax or zeven warships here: arl on 'em very wise 'uns. Squaire Maunder there be the zinnyer.
And whan thei fynde the flessche fatte, than thei seyn, that it is wel don, to senden him sone to paradys; and that thei have not suffred him to longe, to endure in peyne. The kyng of this yle is a ful gret lord and a myghty; and hathe undre him 54 grete yles, that zeven tribute to him: and in everyche of theise yles, is a kyng crowned, and alle ben obeyssant to that kyng.
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