Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... blacke , blacke coney - skins with gray , Kine nesh and strong , skins deare and cheape alway . The whitest silver is not alwaies best , Lead , tynne , and pewter are of base esteeme ; The yellow burnisht gold that comes from th ' East ...
... blacke , blacke coney - skins with gray , Kine nesh and strong , skins deare and cheape alway . The whitest silver is not alwaies best , Lead , tynne , and pewter are of base esteeme ; The yellow burnisht gold that comes from th ' East ...
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... blacke the better is , In birds , beasts , frute , stones , flowres , herbs , mettals , fish . And last of all , in blacke there doth appeare Such qualities as not in yvorie ; Black cannot blush for shame , looke pale for feare ...
... blacke the better is , In birds , beasts , frute , stones , flowres , herbs , mettals , fish . And last of all , in blacke there doth appeare Such qualities as not in yvorie ; Black cannot blush for shame , looke pale for feare ...
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... blacke vyces piller , White makes proud fooles inferiour unto no man : White is the white of body , blacke of minde , Vertue we seldome in white habit finde . Oh , then be not so proud because th ' art fayre , Vertue is onely the ritch ...
... blacke vyces piller , White makes proud fooles inferiour unto no man : White is the white of body , blacke of minde , Vertue we seldome in white habit finde . Oh , then be not so proud because th ' art fayre , Vertue is onely the ritch ...
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