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    "Demaunders for glimmer."

    As found in Thomas Harman's "Warning for Common Vagabonds." 1567

    "These demunders for glimmer (fire) be, for the most parte women; those goe with fayned lycences and counterfayted wrytings, having the hands (signatures) and seals of suche gentlemen as dwelleth nere o the place where they fayne themselves to have been burnt, and their goods consumed with fyre. They will most lamentabl demaunde your charitie, and wyll quickly shed salte teares, they be so tender harted. They wyll never begge in that shire where their losses ( as they say) was. The upright men be familiare with these kynde of women, and one of them helpes another."

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    Quote Originally Posted by MANICHAEAN View Post
    Leof Aunty
    Thank eow foro aem eower uteweard waeterstream English wederu.
    I wena eow weorofulnes well.
    M.
    Well, after my il-timed remark in reply #13 above, the weather gods paid yours fooly back with a vengeance. We received well over a foot of snow yesterday, and a nearby town got 39 inches -- well over a meter to you folks who are "metricians" (?)

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    I know. I saw it on the news Aunty, but refrained from smirking.

    The Beast From The East has departed from us now and we are now up to 1 degree centigrade, as opposed to minus 5.

    Spring has thus arrived in Blighty.

    Take care.
    M.

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    Do you use classical literature to learn English? What books?

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    Dear Gloriya

    No. I was born in the U.K. and developed a taste for reading from a young age.

    Classical literature books? There are too many to list, but all well known. Myself I started with the English ones, then moved onto American, French and then Russian.

    Best wishes
    M.

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    " Harpyes."

    Monstrous and ravenous birds which poets feign to have had woman's faces, hands armed with talons,and bellies full of ordure, wherewith they infected all meat they touched. They lived in Stymphalis, a lake of Arcadia, and were named " Aello,Ocypete,Celeno and Thyella." Hence we usually apply the name of harpyes to avaricious, griping and usurious men.

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    These Harpies evolved and migrated to the NewWorld, where they became bill collectors.

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