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...KNYGHT was ther, and he was war and wys Who hadde him worde from nygh apothecaries That thogh the clerkes worthy al did sem Hir lechoury hadde longe in proces been. The knyght then in a loude tonge rendred That al by lak of vertu was engendred, And he could mak swyft remedie with powre By shortenyng hir synnyng tyme an houre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantabridgian Tayles | 10/12/1963 | See Source »

Locomotive Chorus. When country singing came out of the hills, its highly developed morbid strain came too, and the form soon adapted itself to new material: guitarists began twanging out such up-to-date items as Old Man Atom with a locomotive chorus ("Hir-o-shi-ma, Na-ga-sa-ki"). When little Kathy Fiscus died at the bottom of a California well in 1949, the Ballad of Kathy Fiscus was probably inevitable, like the more recent Ballad of Caryl Chessman and today's Ballad of Francis Powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: The Shady Side of the Street | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...Tale," Hir shoes were laced on hir legges hye;/ She was a prymerole, a pigges-nye, Coghill, aware that no modern woman would care to be compared to a pig's eye, freshens her up like this: High shoes she wore, and laced them to the top./ She was a daisy, () a lollipop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...foot-mantel aboute hir hipes large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Lodz to Canterbury | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...hir feet a paire of spores sharpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Lodz to Canterbury | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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