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 - English literature |
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... play . " 2 This lasted three days , such games and such plays . 8 Then , on the fourth day , the king went to council ? And gave his good knights all their rights or rewards . 5 He satisfied . * Robert's Chronicle , from a particular ...
... play . " 2 This lasted three days , such games and such plays . 8 Then , on the fourth day , the king went to council ? And gave his good knights all their rights or rewards . 5 He satisfied . * Robert's Chronicle , from a particular ...
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... play with bowls in alleys cold , Your disease to drive away ; To see the fishes in pools play , To a drawbridge then shall ye , Th ' one half of stone , th ' other of tree ; A barge shall meet you full right , With twenty - four oars ...
... play with bowls in alleys cold , Your disease to drive away ; To see the fishes in pools play , To a drawbridge then shall ye , Th ' one half of stone , th ' other of tree ; A barge shall meet you full right , With twenty - four oars ...
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... play at dice both day and night , And eat also and drinken o'er their might , Through which they do the devil sacrifice , Within the devil's temple ' , in cursed wise , By superfluity abominable . Their oathes been so great and so ...
... play at dice both day and night , And eat also and drinken o'er their might , Through which they do the devil sacrifice , Within the devil's temple ' , in cursed wise , By superfluity abominable . Their oathes been so great and so ...
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... play . stressure hath Fortúne unto us given , in mirth and jollity our life to liven , Antly as it com'th so will we spend , Is ! 6 ddés precious dignity ! who ween'd9 -day that we should have so fair a grace ? 3 might this gold be ...
... play . stressure hath Fortúne unto us given , in mirth and jollity our life to liven , Antly as it com'th so will we spend , Is ! 6 ddés precious dignity ! who ween'd9 -day that we should have so fair a grace ? 3 might this gold be ...
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... play . + In Aperil the three - and - twenty day , * See his Life by Dr Currie . † A few couplets in the original spelling are subjoined : - So on a tym he desyrit to play . In Aperill the three - and - twenty day , Till Erewyn wattir ...
... play . + In Aperil the three - and - twenty day , * See his Life by Dr Currie . † A few couplets in the original spelling are subjoined : - So on a tym he desyrit to play . In Aperill the three - and - twenty day , Till Erewyn wattir ...
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afterwards Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer coude court dance death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fear flowers frae GEOFFREY CHAUCER Geoffrey of Monmouth give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Jack Cade JOHN king lady language Latin Layamon learned live look Lord merry micht mind mony nature never night noble Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor prose Queen quoth reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet tell thee ther thine thing thou thought tongue translation unto verse wald Wallace wanton wassail weel Wickliffe wind withouten words writers youth