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• Before each of them could take one, they had to say something lucky to us, such as 433 —  Mao's last dancer
• G. AYALA: And as the ash is coming down, I keep thinking that's part of my baby coming down on me. —  CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006
• What colour ash is there in thy pipe-bowl? —  Kim
• Three samples of bagasse in which the ash is assumed to be 3 per cent give from the formula: —  Steam, Its Generation and Use
• The lady was overjoyed, and accepted the offer with assurances of eternal gratitude As it was her wish that those who should find the child might know it was born of noble parents She took a rich baudekine_,[40 That her lord brought from Constantine_,[41 And lopped the little maiden therein And took a ring of fine gold And on her arm it knit With a lace of silk in plit._[42 The maid took the child her mid_,[43 And stole away in an even tide And passed over a wild heath Thorough field and thorough wood she geth_,[44 All the winter-long night The weather was clear, the moon was light So that she com by a forest side She wox all weary, and gan abide Soon after she gan heark Cockes crow, and dogs bark She arose, and thither wold Near and nearer, she gan behold Walls and houses fell the seigh A church, with steeple fair and high Then was there nother street no town But an house of religion An order of nuns, well y-dight To servy God both day and night The maiden abode no lengore_;[45 But yede her to the church door And on her knees she sate her down And said, weepand, her orisones O Lord," she said, "Jesus Christ That sinful mannes bedes_,[46 Underfong_[47] this present And help this seli innocent That it mote y-christen'd be For Marie love, thy mother free She looked up, and by her seigh An asche, by her, fair and high Well y-boughed, of mickle price The body was hollow, as many one is Therin she laid the child for cold In the pel_,[48] as it was, byfold_[49 And blessed it with all her might With that it gan to dowe light The fowles up, and sung on bough And acre-men yede to the plough The maiden turned again anon And took the way she had ere gon The porter of the abbey arose And did his office in the close Rung the bells and tapers light Laid forth books, and all ready dight The church door be undid And seigh anon, in the stede_,[50 The pel liggen in the tree And thought well that it might be That thieves had y-robbed somewhere And gone there forth, and let it there Therto he yede, and it unwound And the maiden child therin he found He took it up between his honde And thanked Jesu Christes sonde And home to his house he it brought And took it to his daughter, and her besought That she should keep it as she con For she was melche, and couthe thon._[51 She bade it suck, and it wold For it was nigh dead for cold Anon, fire she a-light And warmed it well aplight_,[52 She gave it suck upon her barm_,[53 And siththen, laid it to sleep warm And when the mass was y-done The porter to the abbesse com full soon Madame, what rede ye of this thinge To-day, right in the morning Soon after the first stound_,[54 A little maiden child ich found In hollow ash thin out And a pel her about A ring of gold also was there How it came thither I wot ne'er The abbesse was a-wondered of this thing Go," she said, "on hying_[55 And fetch it hither, I pray thee It is welcome to God and me Ich will it helpen as I can And segge it to my kinswoman The porter anon it gan forth bring With the pel, and with the ring The abbesse let clepe a priest anon And let it christen in function And for it was in an ash y-found She cleped it Frain in that stound The name[56] of the ash is a frain After the language of Bretayn Forthy_[57] Le Frain men clepeth this lay More than ash, in each country This Frain thriv'd from year to year The abbess niece men ween'd it were The abbess her gan teach, and beld._[58 By that she was twelve winter eld In all England there was none A fairer maiden than she was one And when she couthe ought of manhede,_[59 She bade the abbesse her wisse_[60] and rede Which were her kin, one or other Father or mother, sister or brother The abbesse her in council took To tellen her she nought forsook How she was founden in all thing And took her the cloth and the ring And bade her keep it in that stede And, therwhiles she lived, so she did Then was there, in that cuntr A rich knight of land and fee Proud, and young, and jollif And had not yet y-wedded wife He was stout, of great renown And was y-cleped Sir Guroun He heard praise that maiden free And said, he would her see He dight him in the way anon And jolliflich thither is gone And bode his man segge, verament He should toward a tournament The abbesse, and the nonnes all Fair him grette in the guest-hall And damsel Frain, so fair of mouth Grette him fair, as she well couth And swithe well he gan devise Her semblant, and her gentrise Her lovesome eyen, her rode_[61] so bright And commenced to love her anon-right And thought how he might take on To have her for his lemon [Errata: leman He thought, "Gificcome her to More than ich have y-do The abbesse will souchy_[62] guile And wide_[63] her away in a little while He compassed another suchesoun;_[64 To be brother of that religion Madam," he said to the abbesse "I-lovi_[65] well, in all goodness Ich will give one and other Londes and rentes, to become your brother,[66 That ye shall ever fare the bet_[67 When I come to have recet. —  The Lay of Marie

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