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Mid þine cleures woldest me meysse. þe were i {} cundere to one frogge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Mid þine cliures woldest me meshe. þe were icundur to one frogge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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In 1580, the Stationers 'Company licensed "a ballad of a most strange wedding of the frogge and the mouse;" and that same ballad Dr. Robert Chambers printed from a small quarto manuscript of poems formerly in the possession of Sir Walter Scott, dated 1630.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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A ballad entitled "A most strange weddinge of the frogge and the mouse" was licensed for printing in 1580.
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The word frog traces back through the Medieval English word frogge, to Old Norse frauki, to the Sanskrit words pravate (meaning "he jumps up") and plava ( "frog").
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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⁊ sat to {} swolle ⁊ to bolewe. so heo hedde one frogge i ` s´wolwe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Nu leofemen for godes lufe witeð how wið þes deofles musestoch ⁊ witeð eow þet ȝe ne beo noht þe foaȝe neddre. ne þe blake tadde. ne þe ȝolewe frogge. þe feder. ⁊ þe sune. ⁊ þe {120} halie gast. iscild us þer {} wið. ⁊ wið alle sunnen a buten e {n} de. _per om {n} ia s {e} c {u} la s {e} c {u} lor {um}.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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⁊ sat to svolle ⁊ ibolwe. also ho hadde one frogge isuolȝe. for ho wel wiste ⁊ was i {} war. þat ho song hire a bisemar.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Lycensed unto him, &c., theis iiij. ballads followinge, that is to saie, A moste strange weddinge of the frogge and the mowse, "
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