Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... things is provided . Oh then be humble , gentle , meeke , and milde , So shalt thou be of every mouth commended ; Be ... thing is whiter than the milke - bred lilly ? That knowes it not for naught , what man so silly ? Yea , what more ...
... things is provided . Oh then be humble , gentle , meeke , and milde , So shalt thou be of every mouth commended ; Be ... thing is whiter than the milke - bred lilly ? That knowes it not for naught , what man so silly ? Yea , what more ...
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... thing That flyes in welkin , or in water swims , How everie thing increaseth with the spring , And how the blacker still the brighter dims : We cannot chuse , but needs we must confesse , Sable excels milk - white in more or lesse . As ...
... thing That flyes in welkin , or in water swims , How everie thing increaseth with the spring , And how the blacker still the brighter dims : We cannot chuse , but needs we must confesse , Sable excels milk - white in more or lesse . As ...
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... thing , Onely for a little show of Vertue ones ? Women have kindnes grafted in their bones . Gold is a deepe ... things in this life are but trifling toyes , But Fame and Vertue never shall decay , For Fame is toomblesse , Vertue lives ...
... thing , Onely for a little show of Vertue ones ? Women have kindnes grafted in their bones . Gold is a deepe ... things in this life are but trifling toyes , But Fame and Vertue never shall decay , For Fame is toomblesse , Vertue lives ...
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