Episode 152: As the Saying Goes
The History of English Podcast
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Young Saint Old Devil
The young wife's aunt refuses to give her anything with the following passage, hold fast when ye have it. The narrator then recalls asking the young wife where her uncle was while this discussion was taking place. Here's that passage forsooth quoth i, ye have besteered or roused ye well. But where was your uncle while all this fray fell asleep? And it is evil waking of a sleeping dog.
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