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... . haill ] healthy , whole . tak tent ] give heed . bot gif ] but if , unless . reivis ] robbest . aboif ] above , up bute for baill ] mawgre ] ill - will roiff ] quiet . ' Robin , in dule I am so drest That 17 ROBERT HENRYSON.
... . haill ] healthy , whole . tak tent ] give heed . bot gif ] but if , unless . reivis ] robbest . aboif ] above , up bute for baill ] mawgre ] ill - will roiff ] quiet . ' Robin , in dule I am so drest That 17 ROBERT HENRYSON.
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... give o'er the plea : As we began , so will we keep , And I'll take my old cloak about me . 30 . JOHN SKELTON To Mistress Margery Wentworth 7ITH margerain gentle , The flower of goodlihead , Embroidered the mantle Is of your maidenhead ...
... give o'er the plea : As we began , so will we keep , And I'll take my old cloak about me . 30 . JOHN SKELTON To Mistress Margery Wentworth 7ITH margerain gentle , The flower of goodlihead , Embroidered the mantle Is of your maidenhead ...
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... give it a taunt : Since flesh might not endure , but rest must wrath succeed , And force the fight to fall to play in pasture where they feed , So noble nature can well end the work she hath begun , And bridle well that will not cease ...
... give it a taunt : Since flesh might not endure , but rest must wrath succeed , And force the fight to fall to play in pasture where they feed , So noble nature can well end the work she hath begun , And bridle well that will not cease ...
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... GIVE Tottel's Miscellany , 1557 IVE place , you ladies , and begone ! Boast not yourselves at all ! For here at hand approacheth one Whose face will stain you all . The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone ; I wish to ...
... GIVE Tottel's Miscellany , 1557 IVE place , you ladies , and begone ! Boast not yourselves at all ! For here at hand approacheth one Whose face will stain you all . The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone ; I wish to ...
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... give ; When death doth what he can , Her honest fame shall ever live Within the mouth of man . ? by John Heywood 54. To Her Sea - faring Lover Tottel's Miscellany , 1557 SHALL I thus ever long , and be no whit the neare ? And shall I ...
... give ; When death doth what he can , Her honest fame shall ever live Within the mouth of man . ? by John Heywood 54. To Her Sea - faring Lover Tottel's Miscellany , 1557 SHALL I thus ever long , and be no whit the neare ? And shall I ...
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