Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... hope to standen in his ladies grace . Embrouded was he , as it were a mede All full of freshe floures , white and rede . Singing he was , or floyting all the day : He was as freshe as is the moneth of May . Short was his goune , with ...
... hope to standen in his ladies grace . Embrouded was he , as it were a mede All full of freshe floures , white and rede . Singing he was , or floyting all the day : He was as freshe as is the moneth of May . Short was his goune , with ...
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... hope cometh in at last . * That when her list on nights wake , 4 In chamber , as to carol and dance , Methink I may me more avance , If I may gone upon her hond , Than if I win a king's lond . For when I may her hand beclip , With such ...
... hope cometh in at last . * That when her list on nights wake , 4 In chamber , as to carol and dance , Methink I may me more avance , If I may gone upon her hond , Than if I win a king's lond . For when I may her hand beclip , With such ...
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... hope ; and some all utterly Despairit is , and sae quite out of grace , His purgatory he finds in every place , Dame Nature's menstrals , on that other part , Their blissful lay intoning every art , And all small fowlis singis on the ...
... hope ; and some all utterly Despairit is , and sae quite out of grace , His purgatory he finds in every place , Dame Nature's menstrals , on that other part , Their blissful lay intoning every art , And all small fowlis singis on the ...
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... hope of speed what dread of long delays : The wild forest , the clothed holts with green , With reins availed3 and swift ybreathed horse ; With cry of hounds and merry blasts between , Where we did chase the fearful hart of force . The ...
... hope of speed what dread of long delays : The wild forest , the clothed holts with green , With reins availed3 and swift ybreathed horse ; With cry of hounds and merry blasts between , Where we did chase the fearful hart of force . The ...
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... hope to be wise- Not only in wearing my gorgeous array , For I will go to learning a whole summer's day ; I will learn Latin , Hebrew , Greek , and French , And I will learn Dutch sitting on my bench . I do fear no man , each man ...
... hope to be wise- Not only in wearing my gorgeous array , For I will go to learning a whole summer's day ; I will learn Latin , Hebrew , Greek , and French , And I will learn Dutch sitting on my bench . I do fear no man , each man ...
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