Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... backe Fild full of arrows ; th ' one of fatall steele , The other all of gold ; Deaths shaft was black , But Loves was yellow : Fortune turnd her wheele , And from Deaths quiver fell a fatall shaft , That 6 THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD .
... backe Fild full of arrows ; th ' one of fatall steele , The other all of gold ; Deaths shaft was black , But Loves was yellow : Fortune turnd her wheele , And from Deaths quiver fell a fatall shaft , That 6 THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD .
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... backe . Wilt thou set springes in a frostie night To catch the long - bill'd woodcocke and the snype , By the bright glimmering of the starrie light , The partridge , phæsant , or the greedie grype ; Ile lend thee lyme - twigs , and ...
... backe . Wilt thou set springes in a frostie night To catch the long - bill'd woodcocke and the snype , By the bright glimmering of the starrie light , The partridge , phæsant , or the greedie grype ; Ile lend thee lyme - twigs , and ...
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... backe be froe the benche , Leaste any man shoulde hym knowe ; And by the thirde day of Maye , Byd hym come and speake with me . Commend me unto Edward my sonne , The warden and he together bee , And byd them brynge seaven sad yeoman ...
... backe be froe the benche , Leaste any man shoulde hym knowe ; And by the thirde day of Maye , Byd hym come and speake with me . Commend me unto Edward my sonne , The warden and he together bee , And byd them brynge seaven sad yeoman ...
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