Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... merry and interested churchmen , we have a poor parson of a town , rich in holy thought and work , ' and a clerk of Oxford , who was skilled in logic- Sounding in moral virtue was his speech , And gladly would he learn and gladly teach ...
... merry and interested churchmen , we have a poor parson of a town , rich in holy thought and work , ' and a clerk of Oxford , who was skilled in logic- Sounding in moral virtue was his speech , And gladly would he learn and gladly teach ...
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... merry ' as I. ' And at the last , the fiend , our enemy , Put in his thought that he should poison buy With which he mighté slay his fellows tway : For why ? the fiend found him in such living , That he had leve3 to sorrow him to bring ...
... merry ' as I. ' And at the last , the fiend , our enemy , Put in his thought that he should poison buy With which he mighté slay his fellows tway : For why ? the fiend found him in such living , That he had leve3 to sorrow him to bring ...
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... merry , And afterward we will his body bury . ' And with that word it happen'd him par cas1 To take the bottle where the poison was , And drank , and gave his fellow drink also , For which anon they storven2 bothé two . But certés I ...
... merry , And afterward we will his body bury . ' And with that word it happen'd him par cas1 To take the bottle where the poison was , And drank , and gave his fellow drink also , For which anon they storven2 bothé two . But certés I ...
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... merry and interested churchmen , we have a poor parson of a town , rich in holy thought and work , ' and a clerk of Oxford , who was skilled in logic- Sounding in moral virtue was his speech , And gladly would he learn and gladly teach ...
... merry and interested churchmen , we have a poor parson of a town , rich in holy thought and work , ' and a clerk of Oxford , who was skilled in logic- Sounding in moral virtue was his speech , And gladly would he learn and gladly teach ...
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... merry ' as I. ' And at the last , the fiend , our enemy , Put in his thought that he should poison buy With which he mighté slay his fellows tway : For why ? the fiend found him in such living , That he had leve3 to sorrow him to bring ...
... merry ' as I. ' And at the last , the fiend , our enemy , Put in his thought that he should poison buy With which he mighté slay his fellows tway : For why ? the fiend found him in such living , That he had leve3 to sorrow him to bring ...
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