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Page vi
... green corn Hath rotted , ere his youth attain'd a beard . ' In this point alone there is such an important discrepancy that if Shakespeare referred to any particular season we may without doubt affirm it was not to the year 1594 , and ...
... green corn Hath rotted , ere his youth attain'd a beard . ' In this point alone there is such an important discrepancy that if Shakespeare referred to any particular season we may without doubt affirm it was not to the year 1594 , and ...
Page xviii
... green circle , which we com- monly find in plain fields , which others hold to proceed from a meteor falling , or some accidental rankness of the ground ; so nature sports herself . . . . Paracelsus reckons up many .... ... places in ...
... green circle , which we com- monly find in plain fields , which others hold to proceed from a meteor falling , or some accidental rankness of the ground ; so nature sports herself . . . . Paracelsus reckons up many .... ... places in ...
Page 6
... green , when hawthorn buds appear . Sickness is catching : O , were favour so , 180 Yours would I catch , fair Hermia , ere I go ; My ear should catch your voice , my eye your eye , My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody ...
... green , when hawthorn buds appear . Sickness is catching : O , were favour so , 180 Yours would I catch , fair Hermia , ere I go ; My ear should catch your voice , my eye your eye , My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody ...
Page 12
... green . The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies , fairy favours , In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dewdrops here And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear ...
... green . The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies , fairy favours , In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dewdrops here And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear ...
Page 14
... green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain❜d a beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field , And crows are fatted with the murrion flock ; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud , And the quaint mazes in the wanton green ...
... green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain❜d a beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field , And crows are fatted with the murrion flock ; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud , And the quaint mazes in the wanton green ...
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