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  1. Tamsin Lewis @[email protected] ·

    A description of the #month of #May in #earlymodern England.
    From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.

    Read by Peter Kenny

    Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

    youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYJPfZlPk

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