The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5G. Bell, 1891 - Poetry |
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... seeke Their fortunes farre abroad , lyeke with his lyeke , For both were craftie and unhappie witted ; Two fellowes might no where be better fitted . The Foxe , that first this cause of griefe did finde , Gan first thus plaine his case ...
... seeke Their fortunes farre abroad , lyeke with his lyeke , For both were craftie and unhappie witted ; Two fellowes might no where be better fitted . The Foxe , that first this cause of griefe did finde , Gan first thus plaine his case ...
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... seeke my fortune , where I may it mend : For worse than that I have I cannot meete . Wide is the world I wote , and everie streete Is full of fortunes , and adventures straunge , Continuallie subject unto chaunge . Say , my faire ...
... seeke my fortune , where I may it mend : For worse than that I have I cannot meete . Wide is the world I wote , and everie streete Is full of fortunes , and adventures straunge , Continuallie subject unto chaunge . Say , my faire ...
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... spent my deerest blood , And in long service lost both limbs and good ; And now , constrain'd that trade to overgive , I driven am to seeke some meanes to live : 250 Which might it you in pitie please t ' afford MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE . 9.
... spent my deerest blood , And in long service lost both limbs and good ; And now , constrain'd that trade to overgive , I driven am to seeke some meanes to live : 250 Which might it you in pitie please t ' afford MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE . 9.
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... seeke for that they wont to scorne , Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne . " The honest man , that heard him thus complaine , Was griev'd as he had felt part of his paine ; And well dispos'd him some reliefe to showe , Askt if in ...
... seeke for that they wont to scorne , Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne . " The honest man , that heard him thus complaine , Was griev'd as he had felt part of his paine ; And well dispos'd him some reliefe to showe , Askt if in ...
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... seeke some other way to gaine by giving , Much like to begging , but much better named , For manie beg which are thereof ashamed . And now the Foxe had gotten him a gowne , And th ' Ape a cassocke sidelong hanging downe ; For they their ...
... seeke some other way to gaine by giving , Much like to begging , but much better named , For manie beg which are thereof ashamed . And now the Foxe had gotten him a gowne , And th ' Ape a cassocke sidelong hanging downe ; For they their ...
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