Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1871 |
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... Thine heart - blood he will spill , And thy barons all ! " When the Soudan this y - heard , As a wood2 man he fared , 3 His robe he rent adown ; He tare the hair of head and beard , And said he would her win with swerd , By his lord St ...
... Thine heart - blood he will spill , And thy barons all ! " When the Soudan this y - heard , As a wood2 man he fared , 3 His robe he rent adown ; He tare the hair of head and beard , And said he would her win with swerd , By his lord St ...
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... thine eyen , And yet now liveth my little child parfay : 7 Now , lady bright ! to whom all woful crien , Thou glory of womanhood , thou faire May ! Thou haven of refute , bright star of day ! Rue on my child , that of thy gentleness ...
... thine eyen , And yet now liveth my little child parfay : 7 Now , lady bright ! to whom all woful crien , Thou glory of womanhood , thou faire May ! Thou haven of refute , bright star of day ! Rue on my child , that of thy gentleness ...
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... thine honest cure , 4 For drunkenness is very sépulture Of mannés wit and his discretión . In whom that drink hath dominatión He can no counsel keep , it is no drede.5 Now keep you from the white and from the rede , 6 And namely from ...
... thine honest cure , 4 For drunkenness is very sépulture Of mannés wit and his discretión . In whom that drink hath dominatión He can no counsel keep , it is no drede.5 Now keep you from the white and from the rede , 6 And namely from ...
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... thine house ne should not ben hid ne kept so close , but that they might ben opened by pity and debonnairety , that is to sayen , to give ' em part that han great need ; ne they goods shoulden not ben so open to be every man's goods ...
... thine house ne should not ben hid ne kept so close , but that they might ben opened by pity and debonnairety , that is to sayen , to give ' em part that han great need ; ne they goods shoulden not ben so open to be every man's goods ...
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... Thine awn gude spend , ' says he , ' while thou has space . There is yet another , in which these Horatian maxims are still more pointedly enforced , and from this we shall select a few stanzas : - Be merry , man , and tak not sair in ...
... Thine awn gude spend , ' says he , ' while thou has space . There is yet another , in which these Horatian maxims are still more pointedly enforced , and from this we shall select a few stanzas : - Be merry , man , and tak not sair in ...
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