Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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Page 37
... unto your excellence ? If ye a goddess be , and that ye like To do me pain , I may it not astart : 8 If ye be warldly wight , that doth me sike , 9 Why list 10 God make you so , my dearest heart , To do a seely 11 prisoner this smart ...
... unto your excellence ? If ye a goddess be , and that ye like To do me pain , I may it not astart : 8 If ye be warldly wight , that doth me sike , 9 Why list 10 God make you so , my dearest heart , To do a seely 11 prisoner this smart ...
Page 38
... unto London I did me hie , Of all the land it beareth the price ; ' Hot peascods ! ' one began to cry , ' Strawberry ripe , and cherries in the rise ! ' 3 One bade me come near and buy some spice ; Pepper , and saffron they gan me beed ...
... unto London I did me hie , Of all the land it beareth the price ; ' Hot peascods ! ' one began to cry , ' Strawberry ripe , and cherries in the rise ! ' 3 One bade me come near and buy some spice ; Pepper , and saffron they gan me beed ...
Page 51
... Unto the phoenix kind , Whose like was never seen nor leard , That any man can find . In life she is Diana chaste , In troth Penelope , In word and eke in deed steadfast : What will you more we say ? * * Her roseal colour comes and goes ...
... Unto the phoenix kind , Whose like was never seen nor leard , That any man can find . In life she is Diana chaste , In troth Penelope , In word and eke in deed steadfast : What will you more we say ? * * Her roseal colour comes and goes ...
Page 55
... unto the 25th year of his age , and wasted his time by living vainly , whom our Lord corrected by the scourge of sickness , and suddenly changed him into another man ; so that he began to shine by the spirit of pro- phecy . For on a ...
... unto the 25th year of his age , and wasted his time by living vainly , whom our Lord corrected by the scourge of sickness , and suddenly changed him into another man ; so that he began to shine by the spirit of pro- phecy . For on a ...
Page 56
... unto Almighty God , and to that holy bishop . Upon the morrow , this holy bishop took with him the herdman , and yode unto the presence of the king , and axed of him in sharp wise , why that over - night he had denied to him lodging ...
... unto Almighty God , and to that holy bishop . Upon the morrow , this holy bishop took with him the herdman , and yode unto the presence of the king , and axed of him in sharp wise , why that over - night he had denied to him lodging ...
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