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Chapter C: Cable--mouse 1620

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Cake--good 375

Calendar 396

Calends 866

Calf--bad 339

Calm--storm 1540

Calm sea--pilot 1244

Calms--vows 1708

Calves--fat 229

Camel's back 919

Camels--gnats 682

Candle--devil 417

Candle-stick 195

Candle--sport 1509

Candlemas--wind 1785

Care--coin 287

Care--court 329

Care--goods 974

Care--kill 214

Care--sings 1444

Cares--children 248

Cart--creaks 350

Cart-wheel 1857

Castle--house 489

Cat--care 201

Cat--fair words 1842

Cat--mercy 1067

Cat--old 1173

Cat--scalded 1401

Cats--muffled 1123

Catch bird 1386

Caught--thief 1592

Certainty 227

Chance--main 226

Change mind 1083

Change of weather 1741

Chapel of devotion 225

Chastening 317

Cheap--pity 1251

Cheapest--best 111

Cheeriman--Doctor 1240

Cheese--butter 1075

Cheese--chalk 224

Chickens--count 324

Chickens--crumbs 366

Chickens--curses 371

Chickens--picking 244

Child--nurse 893

Child--train 239

Children--devil's 1013

Children--maid's 52

Children--twice 1182

Chimneys 1466

Chin--swim 1572

Chip--stock 1533

Choice--the 53

Choosers--beggars 97

Christened 687

Churchyard--fat 729

Churchyard--May 810

City--pity 1252

Civility 1117

Clasp--one hand 1189

Clay--St. David's 1382

Clergy--wit 1114

Clerk--clock 268

Cloak--religion 1350

Cloth--ale 22

Cloth--coat 278

Clothes--critics 354

Cloud--pryeth 1306

Clouting--sack 1378

Clown--doctor 437

Clown--title 1628

Coat--gay 279

Cock--crows 778

Cock's stride 1680

Coin--own 1217

Cold--soon 1468

Cold water--words 1844

Colour--horse 805

Colours--treatise 135

Colt--ragged 1328

Companion--pocket 1229

Companions 1372

Company--bad 84

Company--fit 938

Comfort 908

Comforts 248

Common life 1304

Complain--workmen 1849

Confession 305

Confidence 1311

Confine--tongue 1634

Conjure down 1335

Conquer--kindness 889

Conscience--clear 307

Conscience--guilty 735

Conscience--stomach 1536

Constant dropping 1739

Contempt 542

Contention 1578

Cook--lazy 828

Cooks--broth 1506

Cooks--devil 685

Cook-shop 1520

Cool--good words 1844

Corn--April 36

Corn--buy 369

Corn--May 1053

Corn--measure 1058

Corn-bin 207

Corpse--rain 745

Cottages--love 1003

Cough--dry 461

Cough--hid 779

Cough--love 1008

Counsel--fool 604

Counsel--glass 677

Counsel--good 702

Counsellor--best 1243

Country--rich 1365

Courage 852

Courts--love 1003

Cow gives water 74

Cow--keep 1076

Cow--kissed 962

Cow--sell 369

Cow's horn 181

Cozen--cousin 334

Craft's master 1043

Craves 410

Crosses--Thursday 1094

Crown 357

Crows--cock 1174

Crows--hen 363

Cruel--cowards 341

Crumb--musician 1127

Crust--cat 211

Cry--never 1531

Cure--care 200

Cure--prevention 1290

Cut--nose 1503

Cuts--short 1431

Cuts--tongue 1637

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