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... kings and queens meet when desire convinces All thoughts but such as aim at getting princes , As I meet thee . Soul of my life and fame ! Eternal lamp of love ! whose radiant flame Out - glares the heaven's Osiris , and thy gleams Out ...
... kings and queens meet when desire convinces All thoughts but such as aim at getting princes , As I meet thee . Soul of my life and fame ! Eternal lamp of love ! whose radiant flame Out - glares the heaven's Osiris , and thy gleams Out ...
Page 19
... kings , Sole comforter of minds with grief opprest ; Lo , by thy charming rod all breathing things Lie slumbering , with forgetfulness possest , And yet o'er me to spread thy drowsy wings Thou spares , alas ! who cannot be thy guest ...
... kings , Sole comforter of minds with grief opprest ; Lo , by thy charming rod all breathing things Lie slumbering , with forgetfulness possest , And yet o'er me to spread thy drowsy wings Thou spares , alas ! who cannot be thy guest ...
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... king , a king ! O , sweet content ! O , sweet , O , sweet content ! Work Honest labour bears a lovely face ; apace , apace , apace , apace ; Then hey nonny , hey nonny , nonny ! Dekker . 35 Ah , sweet Content , where is thy mild abode ...
... king , a king ! O , sweet content ! O , sweet , O , sweet content ! Work Honest labour bears a lovely face ; apace , apace , apace , apace ; Then hey nonny , hey nonny , nonny ! Dekker . 35 Ah , sweet Content , where is thy mild abode ...
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... king ; Then blooms each thing , then maids dance in a ring , Cold doth not sting , the pretty birds do sing , Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The palm and may make country houses gay , Lambs frisk and play , the ...
... king ; Then blooms each thing , then maids dance in a ring , Cold doth not sting , the pretty birds do sing , Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The palm and may make country houses gay , Lambs frisk and play , the ...
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... king . The lark , that tirra - lyra chants , With heigh ! with heigh ! the thrush and the jay , Are summer songs for me and my aunts , While we lie tumbling in the hay . Shakespeare . Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me 30.
... king . The lark , that tirra - lyra chants , With heigh ! with heigh ! the thrush and the jay , Are summer songs for me and my aunts , While we lie tumbling in the hay . Shakespeare . Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me 30.
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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 lives 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