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  • If the ploughman can get his whip, his ploughstaff, hatchet, or any thing that he wants in the field, by the fireside before the maid hath got her kettle on, then the maid loseth her Shrove-tide cock, and it belongs wholly to the men.

    A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

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