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... fall , and by her fall we learn 45 50 55 59 That cities , towers , wealth , world , and all shall quail . No manhood , might , nor nothing mought prevail ; All were there prest full many a prince and peer , And many a knight that sold ...
... fall , and by her fall we learn 45 50 55 59 That cities , towers , wealth , world , and all shall quail . No manhood , might , nor nothing mought prevail ; All were there prest full many a prince and peer , And many a knight that sold ...
Page 40
... fall by chance , which was not true . But Pallas ( who doth favour wits ) did stay him in his fall , And changing him into a bird did clad him over all With feathers soft amid the air . The quickness of his wit 135 ( Which erst was ...
... fall by chance , which was not true . But Pallas ( who doth favour wits ) did stay him in his fall , And changing him into a bird did clad him over all With feathers soft amid the air . The quickness of his wit 135 ( Which erst was ...
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... fall He and his faithless progeny : Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? ingrate , he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right , Sufficient to have stood , though free to fall . Such I created all th'ethereal powers And ...
... fall He and his faithless progeny : Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? ingrate , he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right , Sufficient to have stood , though free to fall . Such I created all th'ethereal powers And ...
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