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What idler thing than speak and not be heard ? What harder thing than smart and not to speak ? Peace , foolish wit ! with wit my wit is marred . Thus write I , while I doubt to write , and wreak My harms on ink's poor loss .
What idler thing than speak and not be heard ? What harder thing than smart and not to speak ? Peace , foolish wit ! with wit my wit is marred . Thus write I , while I doubt to write , and wreak My harms on ink's poor loss .
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And when the judge doth question of the guilt And bids me speak , then sorrow shuts up words . Yea , though he say , Speak boldly what thou wilt , Yet my confused affects no speech affords . For why , alas , my passions have no bound ...
And when the judge doth question of the guilt And bids me speak , then sorrow shuts up words . Yea , though he say , Speak boldly what thou wilt , Yet my confused affects no speech affords . For why , alas , my passions have no bound ...
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Such hunger - starven trencher - poetry , Or let it never live , or timely die ; Nor under every bank and every tree , Speak rhymes unto my oaten minstrelsy ; Nor carol out so pleasing lively lays As mought the Graces move my mirth to ...
Such hunger - starven trencher - poetry , Or let it never live , or timely die ; Nor under every bank and every tree , Speak rhymes unto my oaten minstrelsy ; Nor carol out so pleasing lively lays As mought the Graces move my mirth to ...
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Contents
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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