Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... never worldly man suche degré As Adam , til he for mysgovernance Was dryven out of heigh prosperité , To labour , and to helle , and to meschaunce . Sampson . Lo Sampson , whiche that was annunciate By thangel , long er his nativité ...
... never worldly man suche degré As Adam , til he for mysgovernance Was dryven out of heigh prosperité , To labour , and to helle , and to meschaunce . Sampson . Lo Sampson , whiche that was annunciate By thangel , long er his nativité ...
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... never wight , siththen the world bigan , That slough so many monstres as dede he ; Thurghout the wide world his name ran , What for his strengthe and for his bounté , And every roialme went he for to se ; He was so strong , ther might ...
... never wight , siththen the world bigan , That slough so many monstres as dede he ; Thurghout the wide world his name ran , What for his strengthe and for his bounté , And every roialme went he for to se ; He was so strong , ther might ...
Page 13
... never wolde assente to that dede Danyel ne his felawes tweye . This king of kinges preu was and elate ; He wende God that sit in magesté Ne might him nought bireve of his estate . But sodeynly he left his dignité , 15630 15640 15650 ...
... never wolde assente to that dede Danyel ne his felawes tweye . This king of kinges preu was and elate ; He wende God that sit in magesté Ne might him nought bireve of his estate . But sodeynly he left his dignité , 15630 15640 15650 ...
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... never so wight . Ther mighte no thing in hir armes stonde . Sche kept hir maydenhed from every wight ; To no man deyned hire to be bonde . But atte last hir frendes han hir maried To Odenake , prince of that citee , Al were it so that ...
... never so wight . Ther mighte no thing in hir armes stonde . Sche kept hir maydenhed from every wight ; To no man deyned hire to be bonde . But atte last hir frendes han hir maried To Odenake , prince of that citee , Al were it so that ...
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... never assent By no way that he schulde by hir lye But oones , for it was hir playn entent To have a child the world to multiplie ; And also soone as sche might aspye That sche was not with childe yit in dede , Than wold sche suffre him ...
... never assent By no way that he schulde by hir lye But oones , for it was hir playn entent To have a child the world to multiplie ; And also soone as sche might aspye That sche was not with childe yit in dede , Than wold sche suffre him ...
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