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... Ladies vew , Whom they found sitting on a sumptuous bed , That glistred all ... faire Cynthia , in darkesome night , Is in a noyous cloud enueloped , Where ... faire knights , and goodly well beseene , But to faire Britomart they all but ...
... Ladies vew , Whom they found sitting on a sumptuous bed , That glistred all ... faire Cynthia , in darkesome night , Is in a noyous cloud enueloped , Where ... faire knights , and goodly well beseene , But to faire Britomart they all but ...
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... women not to entertaine ; A lesson too too hard for liuing clay , From loue in course of nature to refraine : Yet he his mothers lore did well retaine , And euer from faire Ladies loue did fly ; Yet many Ladies faire did oft complaine ...
... women not to entertaine ; A lesson too too hard for liuing clay , From loue in course of nature to refraine : Yet he his mothers lore did well retaine , And euer from faire Ladies loue did fly ; Yet many Ladies faire did oft complaine ...
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... Ladies brest , and bounteous race Of woman kind it fairest flowre doth spire , And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desire . 53 Faire ympes of beautie , whose bright shining beames Adorne the world with like to heauenly light , And ...
... Ladies brest , and bounteous race Of woman kind it fairest flowre doth spire , And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desire . 53 Faire ympes of beautie , whose bright shining beames Adorne the world with like to heauenly light , And ...
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FOWRE HYMNES | xxxvii |
INTRODUCTION BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL | 1 |
THE LEGEND OF BRITOMARTIS OR OF CHASTITIE | 141 |
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