LEAP YEAR
———«. — . •. •. . . The privilege of ladies, choosing husbands is thus explained in-.a work entitled "Courtship, Love, and Matrimonie," printed in the year 1606: "Albeit it is nowe become a part of the common lawe in regard to social relations of life that as often as every bissextile year dost return the time it eontinueth, of making love- unto the men, which they doe either by wordes or lookes as to them it seemeth proper. And, moreover, no man will be entitled to the benefit of clergy who dothe refuse to accept the offers of. a ladye, or who dothe in any wise treate her proposal withe slight or contumely,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 2
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109LEAP YEAR Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 2
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