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Thus Love taught men ! and men thus learned of Love Sweet music's sound with feet to counterfeit ; Which was long time before high - thundering Jove Was lifted up to heav'n's imperial seat . For though by birth he were the prince of ...
Thus Love taught men ! and men thus learned of Love Sweet music's sound with feet to counterfeit ; Which was long time before high - thundering Jove Was lifted up to heav'n's imperial seat . For though by birth he were the prince of ...
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... BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER's Fifty Comedies and Tragedies , 1679 Let the bells ring , and let the boys sing , The young lasses skip and play , Let the cups go round , till round goes the ground , Our learned old vicar will stay .
... BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER's Fifty Comedies and Tragedies , 1679 Let the bells ring , and let the boys sing , The young lasses skip and play , Let the cups go round , till round goes the ground , Our learned old vicar will stay .
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His clear , crisp manner of writing seems to indicate that he had learned something from Jonson . Dryden's comment that no one else expressed so nearly ' the conversation of a gentleman ' would have greatly pleased Suckling .
His clear , crisp manner of writing seems to indicate that he had learned something from Jonson . Dryden's comment that no one else expressed so nearly ' the conversation of a gentleman ' would have greatly pleased Suckling .
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JOHN SKELTON | 3 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY | 27 |
MINOR COURTLY MAKERS OF HENRY VIIIS REIGN | 41 |
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