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... sleep , and content , of spring and the seasons , and then pastoral masquerades and the delight of all lovely natural growths , the triumph of nature ; and then the auxiliary chronicles and canticles of fairies , Cupid , and the graces ...
... sleep , and content , of spring and the seasons , and then pastoral masquerades and the delight of all lovely natural growths , the triumph of nature ; and then the auxiliary chronicles and canticles of fairies , Cupid , and the graces ...
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... sleep : So runs the world away . Shakespeare . Enone . Paris . Enone . 18 Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair as any may be ; The fairest shepherd on our green , A love for any lady . Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair ...
... sleep : So runs the world away . Shakespeare . Enone . Paris . Enone . 18 Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair as any may be ; The fairest shepherd on our green , A love for any lady . Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair ...
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... sleeping Softly , now softly lies Sleep is a reconciling , Sleeping . A rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he sets ? Rest you then , rest , sad eyes ! Melt 18.
... sleeping Softly , now softly lies Sleep is a reconciling , Sleeping . A rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he sets ? Rest you then , rest , sad eyes ! Melt 18.
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... sleeping , Softly , now softly lies Sleeping . 29 Anonymous . Dear , why should command you me to my rest , When now the night doth summon all to sleep ? Methinks this time becometh lovers best ; Night was ordained , together friends to ...
... sleeping , Softly , now softly lies Sleeping . 29 Anonymous . Dear , why should command you me to my rest , When now the night doth summon all to sleep ? Methinks this time becometh lovers best ; Night was ordained , together friends to ...
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... Sleep doth show to inward sight , That wake I think I hold No shadow , but my fair : Myself so to deceive , With long - shut eyes I shun the irksome light . Such pleasure thus I have , Delighting in false gleams , If Death Sleep's ...
... Sleep doth show to inward sight , That wake I think I hold No shadow , but my fair : Myself so to deceive , With long - shut eyes I shun the irksome light . Such pleasure thus I have , Delighting in false gleams , If Death Sleep's ...
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Anonymous Barnabe Barnes beauty beauty's behold Ben Jonson birds breath bright bring Campion Carmela Charon Claia Corydon cuckoo Daffodil dead dear death delight desire Donne dost doth Drayton earth echo ring eyes fair Fairy fairy-queen fear fire flowers fools give Golden slumbers gone grace grief hair hath hear heart heaven Heigh-ho Herrick Hey-ho honour keep King kiss leave light little boy live livës joy look love's lovers lullaby maids merry Mertilla mind ne'er never Nicholas Breton night numbers nymphs Oberon passion Perigot Perilla Philomel Phyllida pleasure poem poor praise pretty Proserpina Queen Queen Mab quoth roses scorn Shakespeare shepherd shine Sidney sighs sight sing sleep smile song sonnets soul spring stay sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thoughts true love unto wanton weep Whilst Willy wilt wind youth
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Page 164 - THRICE toss these oaken ashes in the air, Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair ; And thrice three times tie up this true-love's knot, And murmur soft — ' She will, or she will not.' Go burn these poisonous weeds in yon blue fire, These screech-owl's feathers and this prickling briar ; This cypress gathered at a dead man's grave ; That all thy fears and cares an end may have. Then come, you fairies, dance with...