Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets; Together with Some Few of Later Date. 3Tauchnitz, 1866 - 356 pages |
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... doth prove , Might not the same about her middle weare , But it would loose or else asunder teare . So it happened to the false Florimel , st . 16 , when being brought , about her middle small They thought to gird , as best it her ...
... doth prove , Might not the same about her middle weare , But it would loose or else asunder teare . So it happened to the false Florimel , st . 16 , when being brought , about her middle small They thought to gird , as best it her ...
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... doth grone : Or else some woman laboures with childe , Shee is soe woe - begone . 155 Up then rose Childe Waters soone , And did on his shirte of silke ; And then he put on his other clothes , On his bodye as white as milke . 160 And ...
... doth grone : Or else some woman laboures with childe , Shee is soe woe - begone . 155 Up then rose Childe Waters soone , And did on his shirte of silke ; And then he put on his other clothes , On his bodye as white as milke . 160 And ...
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... hath the heavenly throte , Doth nowe , alas ! not once afforde Recordinge of a note . The flowers have had a frost , 25 The herbs 94 THE SHEPHERD'S ADDRESS TO HIS MUSE . The Shepherd's Address to his Muse By N Breton.
... hath the heavenly throte , Doth nowe , alas ! not once afforde Recordinge of a note . The flowers have had a frost , 25 The herbs 94 THE SHEPHERD'S ADDRESS TO HIS MUSE . The Shepherd's Address to his Muse By N Breton.
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... lived a hermitts life A mile and more out of the towne . Where with my hands I hewed a house Out of a craggy rocke of stone ; V. 94 , 102 , doth lye . MS . And lived like a palmer poore Within that cave myself THE LEGEND OF SIR GUY . 117.
... lived a hermitts life A mile and more out of the towne . Where with my hands I hewed a house Out of a craggy rocke of stone ; V. 94 , 102 , doth lye . MS . And lived like a palmer poore Within that cave myself THE LEGEND OF SIR GUY . 117.
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... doth death proclaime , Standinge with huge Colossus ' spacious stride , Putting such vigour to his knotty beame , That like a furnace he did smoke extreame . But on the ground he spent his strokes in vaine , For Guy was nimble to avoyde ...
... doth death proclaime , Standinge with huge Colossus ' spacious stride , Putting such vigour to his knotty beame , That like a furnace he did smoke extreame . But on the ground he spent his strokes in vaine , For Guy was nimble to avoyde ...
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