Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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B. Can. But this which they produce from Pharamond,
B. Can. In terram Salicam Mulieres ne succedaul,
B. Can. No Woman shall succeed in Salike Land:
B. Can. Which Salike Land, the French vniustly gloze
B. Can. To be the Realme of France, and Pharamond
B. Can. The founder of this Law, and Female Barre.
B. Can. Yet their owne Authors faithfully affirme,
B. Can. That the Land Salike is in Germanie,
B. Can. Betweene the Flouds of Sala and of Elue:
B. Can. Where Charles the Great hauing subdu'd the Saxons,
B. Can. There left behind and settled certaine French:
B. Can. Who holding in disdaine the German Women,
B. Can. For some dishonest manners of their life,
B. Can. Establisht then this Law; to wit, No Female
B. Can. Should be Inheritrix in Salike Land:
B. Can. Which Salike (as I said) 'twixt Elue and Sala,
B. Can. Is at this day in Germanie, call'd Meisen.
B. Can. Then doth it well appeare, the Salike Law
B. Can. Was not deuised for the Realme of France:
B. Can. Nor did the French possesse the Salike Land,