| 1601 Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798706166786 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Satire |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.23 lbs) 34 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerptyeres of age; ye Countesse of Granby, twenty-six; her doter, ye Lady Helen, fifteen; as also these two maides of honor, to-wit, ye Lady Margery Boothy, sixty-five, and ye Lady Alice Dilberry, turned seventy, she being two yeres ye queenes graces elder.I being her maites cup-bearer, had no choice but to remaine and beholde rank forgot, and ye high holde converse wh ye low as uppon equal termes, a grete scandal did ye world heare thereof.In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore, and then--Ye Queene.--Verily in mine eight and sixty yeres have I not heard the fellow to this fart. Meseemeth, by ye grete sound and clamour of it, it was male; yet ye belly it did lurk behinde shoulde now fall lean and flat against ye spine of him yt hath bene delivered of so stately and so waste a bulk, where as ye guts of them yt doe quiff-splitters bear, stand comely still and rounde. Prithee let ye author confess ye offspring. Will my Lady Alice testify?Read More |