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But now I finde it too - too true ( my sonne ) , When my age - withered spring is
almost done . Behold my gray head , full of silver haires , My wrinckled skin ,
deepe furrowes in my face , Cares bring old age , old age increaseth cares ; My
time is ...
But now I finde it too - too true ( my sonne ) , When my age - withered spring is
almost done . Behold my gray head , full of silver haires , My wrinckled skin ,
deepe furrowes in my face , Cares bring old age , old age increaseth cares ; My
time is ...
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... a golden shaft I finde . Cruell , unkinde , and wilt thou leave me so ? Can no
remorce nor pittie move thy minde ? Is mércie in the heavens so hard to finde ?
Oh , then it is no mervaile that on earth Of kinde remorce there is so great a
dearth .
... a golden shaft I finde . Cruell , unkinde , and wilt thou leave me so ? Can no
remorce nor pittie move thy minde ? Is mércie in the heavens so hard to finde ?
Oh , then it is no mervaile that on earth Of kinde remorce there is so great a
dearth .
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The fourth and fifth stanzas are the most poetic :“ If all the worlde were sought full
farre , Who coulde finde such a wyght ? Her beutye twinkleth like a starre , Within
the frostye night . Her couler comes and goes , With such a goodly grace , More ...
The fourth and fifth stanzas are the most poetic :“ If all the worlde were sought full
farre , Who coulde finde such a wyght ? Her beutye twinkleth like a starre , Within
the frostye night . Her couler comes and goes , With such a goodly grace , More ...
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| Title | Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20 Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Percy Society Volume 20 of Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Percy Society |
| Author | Percy Society |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 May 2018 |
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