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... fire but I ; My faultlesse brest the furnace is , the fuell wounding thornes : Loue is the fire , and sighes the smoake , the ashes shames and scornes ; The fuell Iustice layeth on , and mercie blowes the coales , The mettall in this ...
... fire but I ; My faultlesse brest the furnace is , the fuell wounding thornes : Loue is the fire , and sighes the smoake , the ashes shames and scornes ; The fuell Iustice layeth on , and mercie blowes the coales , The mettall in this ...
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... fire their fatal birth disclose ; And first , few scatt'ring sparks about were blown , Big with the flames that to our ruin rose . 218 Then , in some close - pent room it crept along , And , smould'ring as it went , in silence fed ...
... fire their fatal birth disclose ; And first , few scatt'ring sparks about were blown , Big with the flames that to our ruin rose . 218 Then , in some close - pent room it crept along , And , smould'ring as it went , in silence fed ...
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... fire , mean time walks in a broader gross ; To either hand his wings he opens wide : He wades the streets , and straight he reaches cross , And plays his longing flames on th ' other side . 234 At first they warm , then scorch , and ...
... fire , mean time walks in a broader gross ; To either hand his wings he opens wide : He wades the streets , and straight he reaches cross , And plays his longing flames on th ' other side . 234 At first they warm , then scorch , and ...
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EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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