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Wednesday, May 14, 2003
JOE DALBY got medieval on his ass.
hdouble 1:37 PM
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
THE COLLINS ALMANAC:
Whistling Past the Graveyard
A SELECTION FOR MAY the THIRTEENTH
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From an Original Will, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury:
JOSEPH DALBY, late of the Parish of St. Mary-le-bone, proved July 27, 1784.
"I give to my daughter, Ann Spencer, a guinea for a ring, or any other bauble she may like better. I give to her lout the husband one penny to buy him a lark-whistle, I also give to her said husband of redoubtable memory, my ---hole for a covering to his lark-whistle, to prevent the abrasion of his lips, and this legacy I give as a mark of my approbation of his prowess and nice honour, in drawing his sword on me at my own table, naked and unarmed as I was, and he well fortified with custard."
Selected from
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction
June 26, 1824
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