Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... truth and vertue pure . Praise not thyselfe , let other men commend thee ; Beare not a flattring tongue to glaver anie ; Let parents due correction not offend thee ; Rob not thy neighbor , seeke the love of manie ; Hate not to heare ...
... truth and vertue pure . Praise not thyselfe , let other men commend thee ; Beare not a flattring tongue to glaver anie ; Let parents due correction not offend thee ; Rob not thy neighbor , seeke the love of manie ; Hate not to heare ...
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... Truth , truth of dissimulation , Staining our clymate more than anie nation ! What shall I say to thee , thou scorne of Nature , Blacke spot of sinne , vylde lure of lecherie , Injurious blame to everie fæmale creature , Wronger of time ...
... Truth , truth of dissimulation , Staining our clymate more than anie nation ! What shall I say to thee , thou scorne of Nature , Blacke spot of sinne , vylde lure of lecherie , Injurious blame to everie fæmale creature , Wronger of time ...
Page 63
... truth thereof few , now - a - days , will call in question . Grose observes , too , that those born on Christmas - day cannot see spirits . What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards , to those chosen ...
... truth thereof few , now - a - days , will call in question . Grose observes , too , that those born on Christmas - day cannot see spirits . What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards , to those chosen ...
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