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Her soule shall live , inclosd eternally In that pure shrine of immortality ! This is
my doome , and this shall come to passe , For what are pleasures but still vading
joyes ? Fading as flowers , brittle as a glasse , Or potters clay , crost with the least
...
Her soule shall live , inclosd eternally In that pure shrine of immortality ! This is
my doome , and this shall come to passe , For what are pleasures but still vading
joyes ? Fading as flowers , brittle as a glasse , Or potters clay , crost with the least
...
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He that would live for aye , Must eat sage in May . A wet May , Will fill a byre full of
hay . May - day is come and gone , Thou art a gosling and I am none.t A cold May
, and a windy , Makes a fat ( full ) barn and a findy . I * MS . Cantab . ff . y .
He that would live for aye , Must eat sage in May . A wet May , Will fill a byre full of
hay . May - day is come and gone , Thou art a gosling and I am none.t A cold May
, and a windy , Makes a fat ( full ) barn and a findy . I * MS . Cantab . ff . y .
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Yet good father Stanley , remember thee , As I have said so shall it prove , If he of
his gift be soe free , It is for fear and not for love ; For if he may to his purpose
come , You shall not live these years three , For these words to me he did once ...
Yet good father Stanley , remember thee , As I have said so shall it prove , If he of
his gift be soe free , It is for fear and not for love ; For if he may to his purpose
come , You shall not live these years three , For these words to me he did once ...
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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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