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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 come , and I
have run my race : Winter hath snow'd upon my hoarie head , And with my ...
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 come , and I
have run my race : Winter hath snow'd upon my hoarie head , And with my ...
Page 35
The whylst the other hath no enemie , Without it be the wolfe and cruell fates , (
Which no man spare ) : when as his disagree , He with his sheephooke knaps
them on the pates , Schooling his tender lambs from wanton gates . Beasts are
more ...
The whylst the other hath no enemie , Without it be the wolfe and cruell fates , (
Which no man spare ) : when as his disagree , He with his sheephooke knaps
them on the pates , Schooling his tender lambs from wanton gates . Beasts are
more ...
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For many a spyt here hath she turned , And many a good spyt hath she burned :
And many a spyt ful hoth bath rosted , Before the meat coulde be half rosted And
or the meate were halfe rosted in dede , I toke her then fro the spyt with spede .
For many a spyt here hath she turned , And many a good spyt hath she burned :
And many a spyt ful hoth bath rosted , Before the meat coulde be half rosted And
or the meate were halfe rosted in dede , I toke her then fro the spyt with spede .
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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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