Fleas In Bed

August, 1973

from The Tinker of Turvey, 1630The Friars Augustines of Canterbury were endued with great livings from the king, but the richest of all was their prior, who had great revenues and so lived like a potentate. Pampered up with delicates and idleness, those two nurses to lechery, he would pass through the city glancing his eyes to find some handsome trull who might be his paramour. Many he saw and liked, but one day going by a smith's forge, he spied a proper tall woman. She was meanly dressed, afte...