Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... wher he yet is inne . O Lucifer ! brightest of aungels alle , Now art thou Sathanas , that maist nought twynne Out of miserie in which thou art falle . Adam . Lo Adam , in the feld of Damassene 15480 15490 The Monkes Tale . This tale is ...
... wher he yet is inne . O Lucifer ! brightest of aungels alle , Now art thou Sathanas , that maist nought twynne Out of miserie in which thou art falle . Adam . Lo Adam , in the feld of Damassene 15480 15490 The Monkes Tale . This tale is ...
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... wher men might hem se . O noble almighty Sampson , leef and deere , Haddest thou nought to wommen told thy secré , In al the world ne hadde be thy peere . This Sampson neyther siser dronk ne wyn , Ne on his heed com rasour noon ne ...
... wher men might hem se . O noble almighty Sampson , leef and deere , Haddest thou nought to wommen told thy secré , In al the world ne hadde be thy peere . This Sampson neyther siser dronk ne wyn , Ne on his heed com rasour noon ne ...
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... Wher as he with his oughne hond slough the , Succedyng in thy lond and in thy rent . The feld of snow , with thegle of blak ther - inne , Caught with the leoun , reed coloured as is the gleede , 15870 He brewede the cursednesse and ...
... Wher as he with his oughne hond slough the , Succedyng in thy lond and in thy rent . The feld of snow , with thegle of blak ther - inne , Caught with the leoun , reed coloured as is the gleede , 15870 He brewede the cursednesse and ...
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... Wher he conceyved was , so waylaway ! That he so litel of his moodir tolde . 15960 15970 15953 - and septemtrioun . This line stands as here printed in the Harl . and Lansd . MSS . Tyrwhitt inserts south ( south and septemtrion ) , and ...
... Wher he conceyved was , so waylaway ! That he so litel of his moodir tolde . 15960 15970 15953 - and septemtrioun . This line stands as here printed in the Harl . and Lansd . MSS . Tyrwhitt inserts south ( south and septemtrion ) , and ...
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... Wher Eliachim a prest was of that place . But tak keep of that dethe of Olipherne : Amyd his ost he dronke lay on night Withinne his tente , large as is a berne , And yit , for all his pomp and al his might , Judith , a womman , as he ...
... Wher Eliachim a prest was of that place . But tak keep of that dethe of Olipherne : Amyd his ost he dronke lay on night Withinne his tente , large as is a berne , And yit , for all his pomp and al his might , Judith , a womman , as he ...
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