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" What foodless beast can live long in good plight ? Or is it life where senses there be none ? Or what availeth eyes without their light ? Or else a tongue to him that is alone ? Is this a life ? Nay, death you may it call That feels each pain and knows... "
Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages - Page 1
by Percy Society - 1844
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 1

Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 476 pages
...and soone decay, That alwaies is with darke clouds over runne ? Is this a life ? — Nay ; death you may it call That feeles each paine, and knowes no joy at all. " What foodelesse beast can live long in good plight ? Or is it life where sences there be none ? Or what...
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 1

Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 454 pages
...eies, without their sight ? Or els a tongue to him that is alone ? Is this a life ? — Nay ; death you may it call That feeles each paine, and knowes no joy at all. z 3 " Whereto serves eares, if that there be no sound ? Or such a head where no device doth grow ?...
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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the ..., Volume 13

Percy Society - English literature - 1844 - 324 pages
...doth grow ? But al of plaints, since sorrow is the ground Whereby the heart doth pine in deadlie woe. Is this a life ? nay, death I may it call, That feeles each paine, and knowes no joy at all. * This song is contained in all the editions of " The Taradise of Dainty Devices," where it is attributed...
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The Keen of the South of Ireland: As Illustrative of Irish Political and ...

Thomas Crofton Croker - Ireland - 1844 - 316 pages
...doth grow ? But al of plaints, since sorrow is the ground Whereby the heart doth pine in deadlie woe. Is this a life ? nay, death I may it call, That feeles each paine, and knowes no joy at all. * This song is contained in all the editions of " The Paradise of Dainty Devices," where it is attributed...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...life '! nay death you may it call, That feels each pain, and knows no joy at all. What foodless boasts can live long in good plight, Or is it life where senses there be none ; Or what ¡vvaileth eyes without their light : Or else a tongue to him that is alone ; Is this a life ': nay...
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Die gedruckten englischen liederbücher, bis 1600: Ein beitrag zur geschichte ...

Wilhelm Bolle - Ballads, English - 1903 - 434 pages
...sometime comfort of the sunne? How can the flower but vade and soone decay, That alwaies is with darke clouds over runne? Is this a life? nay, death I may it call, * That feeles each paine, and knowes no ioy at all. [Barley 1595. What foodies beast can live long in good plight? Or is it life, where sences...
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Die gedruckten englischen liederbücher, bis 1600: Ein beitrag zur geschichte ...

Wilhelm Bolle - Ballads, English - 1903 - 426 pages
...this a life? nay, death I may it call, That feeles each paine, and knowes no ioy at all. [Barley 1595. What foodies beast can live long in good plight? Or is it life, where sences there be none? Or what availeth eyes without their sight, Or else a tongue to him that is alone?...
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An Anthology of the Poetry of the Age of Shakespeare

William Thomas Young - English poetry - 1923 - 328 pages
...this a life? nay death you may it call, That feels each pain, and knoweth no joy at all. What foodless beast can live long in good plight ? Or is it life...there be none? Or what availeth eyes without their light ? Or else a tongue to him that is alone ? Is this a life ? nay death you may it call, That feels...
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Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts

Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...this a life ? Nay, death you may it call That feels each pain and knows no joy at all. What foodless beast can live long in good plight ? Or is it life...there be none ? Or what availeth eyes without their light ? Or else a tongue to him that is alone ? Is this a life ? Nay, death you may it call That feels...
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English Renaissance Poetry: a Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton To ...

Poetry - 460 pages
...this a life? Nay, death you may it call That feels each pain, and knows no joy at all. What foodless beast can live long in good plight? Or is it life...there be none? Or what availeth eyes without their light? Or else a tongue to him that is alone? Is this a life? Nay, death you may it call That feels...
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