ENGLISSHEMEN'S ANCIENT CUSTOMS
■ <» : Who was tie first men to utter the ery tfoafc England is too fond of her old methods of doing business and too slow in adopting new ideas we cannot say, bat, inasmuch as the following verses were written over 400 years ago, it is certain that the charge "E of considerable antiquity. The quaint lhws to whkh we refer are:— We Englisshmeneibeholde Qur anncient customs holde More pfreciouser than golde To be clene cast away And other new be fownd ; And which ye may understand That csusethe all your land So gretly to decay. —'Liverpool Post.'
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Evening Star, Issue 11672, 3 February 1902, Page 8
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100ENGLISSHEMEN'S ANCIENT CUSTOMS Evening Star, Issue 11672, 3 February 1902, Page 8
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