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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... green : Where from my horse I did alight as fast , And on the bow aloft his reine cast . So faint and mate of weariness I was , That I me laid adown upon the grass , Upon a brinke , shortly for to tell , Beside the river of a crystal ...
... green : Where from my horse I did alight as fast , And on the bow aloft his reine cast . So faint and mate of weariness I was , That I me laid adown upon the grass , Upon a brinke , shortly for to tell , Beside the river of a crystal ...
Page 39
... green beans and peas . Then all your feast with this dread and disease . With fair ' treaty , yet gart she her rise ; To board they went , and on together sat , But scantly had they drunken anes or twice , When in cam Gib Huntér , our ...
... green beans and peas . Then all your feast with this dread and disease . With fair ' treaty , yet gart she her rise ; To board they went , and on together sat , But scantly had they drunken anes or twice , When in cam Gib Huntér , our ...
Page 41
... green ; This was her sentence , sweet and delectable , A lusty life in Lovis service been . Under this branch ran down a river bright , Of balmy liquor , crystalline of hue , Again ' the heavenly azure skyis light , Where did upon the ...
... green ; This was her sentence , sweet and delectable , A lusty life in Lovis service been . Under this branch ran down a river bright , Of balmy liquor , crystalline of hue , Again ' the heavenly azure skyis light , Where did upon the ...
Page 45
... green bloomed strawberry leaves amang ; Jimp jeryflouirs thereon leaves unshet , Fresh primrose and the purpour violet ; Heavenly lillies , with lockerand toppis white , Opened and shew their crestis redemite . Ane paradise it seemed to ...
... green bloomed strawberry leaves amang ; Jimp jeryflouirs thereon leaves unshet , Fresh primrose and the purpour violet ; Heavenly lillies , with lockerand toppis white , Opened and shew their crestis redemite . Ane paradise it seemed to ...
Page 46
... green courts where we were wont to hove , With eyes cast up into the Maiden Tower , And easy sighs such as folk draw in love . The stately seats , the ladies bright of hue ; The dances short , long tales of great delight , With words ...
... green courts where we were wont to hove , With eyes cast up into the Maiden Tower , And easy sighs such as folk draw in love . The stately seats , the ladies bright of hue ; The dances short , long tales of great delight , With words ...
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