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Yet Astrophel might one for all suffice , Whose supple muse chameleon - like doth change Into all forms of excellent device ; So might the swallow , whose swift muse doth range Through rare Ideas and inventions strange , And ever doth ...
Yet Astrophel might one for all suffice , Whose supple muse chameleon - like doth change Into all forms of excellent device ; So might the swallow , whose swift muse doth range Through rare Ideas and inventions strange , And ever doth ...
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Nor ever could my scornful muse abide With tragic shoes her ankles for to hide . Nor can I crouch , and writhe my fawning tail To some great patron , for my best avail . Such hunger - starven trencher - poetry , Or let it never live ...
Nor ever could my scornful muse abide With tragic shoes her ankles for to hide . Nor can I crouch , and writhe my fawning tail To some great patron , for my best avail . Such hunger - starven trencher - poetry , Or let it never live ...
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Ionson Marston , thy muse enharbors Horace ' vein , Then some Augustus give thee Horace ' merit ; And thine , embuskined Jonson , doth retain So rich a style and wondrous gallant spirit That , if to praise your muses I desired , My muse ...
Ionson Marston , thy muse enharbors Horace ' vein , Then some Augustus give thee Horace ' merit ; And thine , embuskined Jonson , doth retain So rich a style and wondrous gallant spirit That , if to praise your muses I desired , My muse ...
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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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| Title | Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
| Editors | John William Hebel, Hoyt Hopewell Hudson |
| Publisher | F.S. Crofts & Company, 1936 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2020 |
| Length | 1068 pages |
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