Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
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The boar's head , I understand , Is the chief service in this land ; Look wherever it be fand , Servite cum cantico . Wherefore I am , and shall be till I die , In youth , in age , Your true servant with thought , Both in wealth and woe ...
The boar's head , I understand , Is the chief service in this land ; Look wherever it be fand , Servite cum cantico . Wherefore I am , and shall be till I die , In youth , in age , Your true servant with thought , Both in wealth and woe ...
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... good man , His throat prepared , and held his head unmoved ; His hasting to those fates the very knights Be loath to see , and rage rebated when They his bare neck beheld , and his hoar hairs ; Scant could they hold the tears that ...
... good man , His throat prepared , and held his head unmoved ; His hasting to those fates the very knights Be loath to see , and rage rebated when They his bare neck beheld , and his hoar hairs ; Scant could they hold the tears that ...
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Each part may call the farthest brother , For head with foot hath private amity , And both with moons and tides . Nothing hath got so far But man hath caught and kept it as his prey : His eyes dismount the highest star ; He is in little ...
Each part may call the farthest brother , For head with foot hath private amity , And both with moons and tides . Nothing hath got so far But man hath caught and kept it as his prey : His eyes dismount the highest star ; He is in little ...
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