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Away , Terpsichore , light Muse , away ! ... Come , Muse of heav'n , my burning thirst allay ! ... Oh , that I could old Geoffrey's muse awake , Or borrow Colin's fair heroic style , Or smooth my rhymes with Delia's servant's file !
Away , Terpsichore , light Muse , away ! ... Come , Muse of heav'n , my burning thirst allay ! ... Oh , that I could old Geoffrey's muse awake , Or borrow Colin's fair heroic style , Or smooth my rhymes with Delia's servant's file !
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Yet Astrophel might one for all suffice , Whose supple muse chameleon - like doth change Into all forms of excellent device ; So might the swallow , whose swift muse doth range Through rare Idæas and inventions strange , And ever doth ...
Yet Astrophel might one for all suffice , Whose supple muse chameleon - like doth change Into all forms of excellent device ; So might the swallow , whose swift muse doth range Through rare Idæas and inventions strange , And ever doth ...
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Ionson Marston , thy muse enharbors Horace ' vein , Then some Augustus give thee Horace ' merit ; And thine , embuskined Jonson , doth retain So rich a style and wondrous gallant spirit That , if to praise your muses I desired , My muse ...
Ionson Marston , thy muse enharbors Horace ' vein , Then some Augustus give thee Horace ' merit ; And thine , embuskined Jonson , doth retain So rich a style and wondrous gallant spirit That , if to praise your muses I desired , My muse ...
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JOHN SKELTON | 3 |
SIR THOMAS MORE | 9 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY | 27 |
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| Title | Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
| Editors | John William Hebel, Hoyt Hopewell Hudson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | F.S. Crofts & Company, 1930 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 22 Sep 2017 |
| Length | 1068 pages |
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