Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
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[ Like truthless dreams ] Like truthless dreams , so are my joys expired , And past return are all my dandled days ; My love misled , and fancy quite retired— Of all which passed the sorrow only stays . My lost delights , now clean from ...
[ Like truthless dreams ] Like truthless dreams , so are my joys expired , And past return are all my dandled days ; My love misled , and fancy quite retired— Of all which passed the sorrow only stays . My lost delights , now clean from ...
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A guileful gain , repentance is the pay ; A great fire bred of small occasion ; A plague to make our frailty to us known , Where we thereby are subject to their lay Whose frailty ought to lean until our stay , In case ourselves this ...
A guileful gain , repentance is the pay ; A great fire bred of small occasion ; A plague to make our frailty to us known , Where we thereby are subject to their lay Whose frailty ought to lean until our stay , In case ourselves this ...
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Just in the nick the cook knocked thrice , And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey ; Each serving - man , with dish in hand , Marched boldly up like trained band , Presented , and away . be 80 our To stay to be entreated ?
Just in the nick the cook knocked thrice , And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey ; Each serving - man , with dish in hand , Marched boldly up like trained band , Presented , and away . be 80 our To stay to be entreated ?
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