Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent AuthorsJoseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
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... poor . " For he was only scantily supplied with money , which chiefly came from France , but if he had possessed the purse of Fortunatus it could barely have sufficed to meet demands from those who lived upon him . A year before , the ...
... poor . " For he was only scantily supplied with money , which chiefly came from France , but if he had possessed the purse of Fortunatus it could barely have sufficed to meet demands from those who lived upon him . A year before , the ...
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... , And that made Churchyard follow from his Porch , Poor , ragged , torn , & tackt , alack , alack You'd think his clothes were pinn'd upon his back . The whole frame hung with pins , to mend which 6 Choice Drollery ,
... , And that made Churchyard follow from his Porch , Poor , ragged , torn , & tackt , alack , alack You'd think his clothes were pinn'd upon his back . The whole frame hung with pins , to mend which 6 Choice Drollery ,
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... Poor bounteous , and the Miser kind ; Poets that have not wealth in wisht excesse , I hope may give like Priests , which is to blesse . And sure in elder times the Poets were Those Priests that told men how to hope and feare , Though ...
... Poor bounteous , and the Miser kind ; Poets that have not wealth in wisht excesse , I hope may give like Priests , which is to blesse . And sure in elder times the Poets were Those Priests that told men how to hope and feare , Though ...
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... poor ? No ich have more a do : If of the world this be the trade , That ich must break zo knaves be made , Ich will a blundering too . Chill zel my cart and eke my plow , And get a zword if ich know how , For ich mean to be right ...
... poor ? No ich have more a do : If of the world this be the trade , That ich must break zo knaves be made , Ich will a blundering too . Chill zel my cart and eke my plow , And get a zword if ich know how , For ich mean to be right ...
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... poor flash of wit , for a time may be fit To wrangle a question in Schools . Good dressing , fine cloathes , with other fine shews , May serve to make painted fools . That man will beguile , in your face that will smile , And court you ...
... poor flash of wit , for a time may be fit To wrangle a question in Schools . Good dressing , fine cloathes , with other fine shews , May serve to make painted fools . That man will beguile , in your face that will smile , And court you ...
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