The history of signboards : from earliest times to the present day (1866)
Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918, Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873, author · London : J.C. Hotten · leaf 214
id, I think it was, fetch him up a pint of warm ale.Accordingly the servant went for the ale; but some hurry in the house,which perhaps employed her otherwise, put it out of her head, and shewent up no more to him. The next morning, seeing no appearance of thegentleman, somebody in the house asked… … SPINNING SOW.(France, 1520.)
Signs and signboards
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