ROPER, William

"After he had a while quietly heard her, with a cheerful countenance he said unto her: 'I pray thee, good Mistress Alice, tell me one thing.' / "'What is that?' quoth she. / "'Is not this house', quoth he, 'as nigh heaven as mine own?' / "To whom she, after her accustomed homely fashion, not liking such talk, answered, 'Tilly vally, Tilly vally'. / "'How say you, Mistress Alice', quoth he, 'is it not so?' / "'Bone deus, Bone deus, man, will this gear never be left?' quoth she. / " … So her persuasions moved him but a little." / [....] Its heat an hour after it hath left the fire," sayth father. " Tilly-vally ! as my good Alice says, / — let us remember the universal doom, * fruges consumere nati,' and philosophize over our ale and bracket".

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