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... Gossips meete , 1602 , and A whole crew of kind Gossips , all met to be merry , 1609 , both representative of a genre which can be called the gos- sips ' meeting . " Gossip , " from Old English godsib or spiritual relative , originally ...
... Gossips meete , 1602 , and A whole crew of kind Gossips , all met to be merry , 1609 , both representative of a genre which can be called the gos- sips ' meeting . " Gossip , " from Old English godsib or spiritual relative , originally ...
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... gossip poem , A Whole Crew of Kind Gossips , All Met to Be Merry , published seven years later , is by contrast a lifeless , mean - spirited piece of work . But it is at least thor- ough ; it combines with Tis Merry to make Rowlands ...
... gossip poem , A Whole Crew of Kind Gossips , All Met to Be Merry , published seven years later , is by contrast a lifeless , mean - spirited piece of work . But it is at least thor- ough ; it combines with Tis Merry to make Rowlands ...
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... gossips ' meetings . In most of these meetings , gossips complain about their husbands , in the process revealing what the authors consider their own unreasonable demands . A wife in William Dunbar's The Twa Cummeris ( The Two Gossips ) ...
... gossips ' meetings . In most of these meetings , gossips complain about their husbands , in the process revealing what the authors consider their own unreasonable demands . A wife in William Dunbar's The Twa Cummeris ( The Two Gossips ) ...
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Exordium I | 1 |
The Genre | 13 |
The Elizabethan Controversy | 49 |
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