Region L: Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments
Wilson, Nash, Edgecombe, Halifax, Northampton
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This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
Both dame and servant, welcomed all, served all,
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On his shoulder, and his, her face afire
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“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. (25:27)
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