Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 22Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... Labour is pictured " with some degree of spirit . " It is equal to the similar inventions of any medieval poet , and better than the imaginings of Hawes and others . It thus commences : High on a mountayne of highnes marvelous , With ...
... Labour is pictured " with some degree of spirit . " It is equal to the similar inventions of any medieval poet , and better than the imaginings of Hawes and others . It thus commences : High on a mountayne of highnes marvelous , With ...
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... Labour and Vertue principall . Fearefull is Labour without favour at all , Dreadfull of visage , a monster intreatable , Like Cerberus lying at gates infernall , To some men his looke is halfe intollerable , His shoulders large , for ...
... Labour and Vertue principall . Fearefull is Labour without favour at all , Dreadfull of visage , a monster intreatable , Like Cerberus lying at gates infernall , To some men his looke is halfe intollerable , His shoulders large , for ...
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... labour and many a grevous fall . ΒΆ FAUSTUS . Men labour sorer in fruyteles vanyte , Than in fayre warkes of grete utylyte ; In suche thryftles we labour for dammage , Warke we dyspyse whiche bryngeth avauntage . TAMYNTAS . Towchynge ...
... labour and many a grevous fall . ΒΆ FAUSTUS . Men labour sorer in fruyteles vanyte , Than in fayre warkes of grete utylyte ; In suche thryftles we labour for dammage , Warke we dyspyse whiche bryngeth avauntage . TAMYNTAS . Towchynge ...
Contents
CONTENTS OF VOL | xxii |
AN INTERLUDE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS | 1 |
INTERLUDE OF THE DISOBEDIENT CHILD | |
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agayne alwayes Amyntas awaye brynge callyd cause chese Codrus connynge Coridon Cornix Countess of Devonshire court courtiers cyte daunce daye death doth dryve dyvers Earl Earl of Warwick eche eclogue father Faustus fayre folowe FREDERICK WILLIAM FAIRHOLT fynde fyre fyrste grete gyve hath heare honour husband JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL JAMES PRIOR kepe knowe labour Lady Warwick live Lord lyfe lyke lyve lyvynge maner married maye mayst mery Minalcas misery myddes myght mynde myne nere never nothynge nought payne Percy Society playne pleasaunt pleasure poynt praye Rich ryches ryght sayde saye servauntes shalt thou shee shewed shulde sonne stryfe styll swete tell thee therfore therof theyr thing thou art thou hast thyne thynge thynke Tyll tyme unto vayne waye whan whyle wife wolde woman words wretched wyfe wyll wyse yerth yonge