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go ask if you can join the game
go ask if you can join the gamehe’ll see in you onewith whom he can play a hidden cardhe’ll nod at a vacant chairlet him win a hand or twothen after he’s played the seven of acornsbefore you lay the seven of bells on the table get the eye that looks at his cards confident…
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today
Between wars, soldiers might turn to highway robbery to supplement their income. In this fiction, Horatio councils John George to find a highwayman who has stolen things to sell— the intent is not to buy, but to recruit….todaybefore someonethe virgin queen of england sayreceives a letter that proposes nora’s dowry for one of her nephewsgo…
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impress charm recruit
Between wars in early modern Europe, soldiers often were idle and sometimes engaged in criminal activity. It wasn’t unusual for commanders to rid towns, villages, and the country of undesirables by recruiting them.impress charm recruit a highwayman on horsebacka fugitive on foot
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or do better
or do betterbefore you’re sold a plowhorse with rotted teethsell a year’s income for a masterpurchase the appearance of wealthysell the money toa lord at the door of his stableoffer to purchase a spanish breedone that’s carried a man weightedwith metal into tournaments into warshe’ll offer to purchase the added price of safe passageto sell…
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before nora’s father gives
before nora’s father givesthat proposal along walkto a poor tenant who plowsan acre of his lord’s domainto purchase the village horse offerto sell a month’s wage for an apprenticehe’ll sell you a swaybackand to purchase a cart with two wheelsoffer to sell a month’s wage for a housemaidhe’ll sell you the time it takes to…
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believe there’ll be a letter
The 16th century elite were starting to run out of cash: So they began to accept offers from the wealthy, and in return bestowed titles and married the daughters of the rich. And so the nobility came to have assets, and the wealthy began to have access to greater opportunities for wealth.believe there’ll be a…
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sell that money for which you
sell that money for which youpaid the sixth part of brandenburg that you succeeded to
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before her father thinks to pen a letter
In medieval and early modern Europe it was a norm for a bride’s family to offer a dowry for a prospective Groom— or for the church— to take on the care and keep of a daughter. The dowry could comprise as little as a pot from a poor family, to estates from a wealth family.…
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now that it’s may
In Europe of the fifteen hundreds, everything was usually postponed ‘til spring. Warmer weather dried the roads and the soil; and plows, carts, and armies didn’t get bogged down in mud. now that it’s mayand the frozen roads have thawedand the thawed roads have dried and ruttednora’s father’s forsaken wittenbergleft his stores and his house…
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unite the leisure divided
Though primogeniture, the passing of an estate to the eldest son, was the norm in sixteenth century Europe, it wasn’t unusual for estates of the Holy Roman Empire to be divided between sons. Beyond this observation, these lines are fiction— the biography of a fictional Margrave: Who in life, got it all together; and in…
