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... mote be forst to fayne , And rolle with rest in rymes of rybaudrye , Or , as it sprong , it wither must agayne : Tom Piper makes us better melodie . Piers . O pierlesse Poesye , where is then thy place ? 80 If nor in princes pallace ...
... mote be forst to fayne , And rolle with rest in rymes of rybaudrye , Or , as it sprong , it wither must agayne : Tom Piper makes us better melodie . Piers . O pierlesse Poesye , where is then thy place ? 80 If nor in princes pallace ...
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... mote best ; The whiles the shepheard self , tending his stocke , Sate by the fountaine side , in shade to rest , Where gentle slumbring sleep oppressed him , Displaid on ground , and seized everie lim . Of trecherie or traines nought ...
... mote best ; The whiles the shepheard self , tending his stocke , Sate by the fountaine side , in shade to rest , Where gentle slumbring sleep oppressed him , Displaid on ground , and seized everie lim . Of trecherie or traines nought ...
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... Mote please his fancie , nor him cause t ' abide : His choicefull sense with everie change doth flit ; No common things may please a wavering wit . 160 To the gay gardins his unstaid desire Him wholly caried , to refresh his sprights ...
... Mote please his fancie , nor him cause t ' abide : His choicefull sense with everie change doth flit ; No common things may please a wavering wit . 160 To the gay gardins his unstaid desire Him wholly caried , to refresh his sprights ...
Page 162
... mote ye please Well to accept , and ever more embrace My faithfull service , that by land and seas Have vowd you to defend . Now then your plaint appease . ' XXX His lovely words her seemd due recom- pence Of all her passed paines : one ...
... mote ye please Well to accept , and ever more embrace My faithfull service , that by land and seas Have vowd you to defend . Now then your plaint appease . ' XXX His lovely words her seemd due recom- pence Of all her passed paines : one ...
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... mote raise , He would at her request prolong her nephews daies . XLII " Ah ! dame , ' quoth he , thou temptest me in vaine To dare the thing , which daily yet I rew , And the old cause of my continued paine With like attempt to like end ...
... mote raise , He would at her request prolong her nephews daies . XLII " Ah ! dame , ' quoth he , thou temptest me in vaine To dare the thing , which daily yet I rew , And the old cause of my continued paine With like attempt to like end ...
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Page 145 - And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 737 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
Page 145 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Page 280 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Page 145 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled...
Page 676 - I well consider all that ye have sayd, And find that all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet being rightly wayd, They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being doe dilate: And turning to themselves at length againe, Doe worke their owne perfection so by fate: Then over them Change doth not rule and raigne; But they raigne over Change, and doe their states maintaine.
Page 735 - Ye learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes, That even the greatest did not greatly scorne To heare theyr names sung in your simple layes, But joyed in theyr praise ; And when ye list your owne mishaps to mourne...
Page 760 - Themmes! runne softly, till I end my Song. Then forth they all out of their baskets drew Great store of Flowers, the honour of the field, That to the sense did fragrant odours yeild, All which upon those goodly Birds they threw And all the Waves did strew, That like \ old Peneus...
Page 149 - The knight was well content ; So with that godly father to his home they went. A litle lowly Hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people that did pas In...
Page 761 - Great Englands glory, and the Worlds wide wonder, Whose dreadfull name late through all Spaine did thunder, And Hercules two pillors standing neere Did make to quake and feare...