Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... never know , Supplying not their wants , but them disdaining , Whilst they to pitty never neede complayning . Humillity in misery is reliev'd , But Pride in neede of no man is regarded ; Pitty and Mercy weepe to see him griev'd , That ...
... never know , Supplying not their wants , but them disdaining , Whilst they to pitty never neede complayning . Humillity in misery is reliev'd , But Pride in neede of no man is regarded ; Pitty and Mercy weepe to see him griev'd , That ...
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... never can decay , nor never fade : He seldome sits in dolefull cypresse shade , But lives in hope , in joy , in peace , in blisse , Joying all joy with this content of his . But now good fortune lands my little boate Upon the shoare of ...
... never can decay , nor never fade : He seldome sits in dolefull cypresse shade , But lives in hope , in joy , in peace , in blisse , Joying all joy with this content of his . But now good fortune lands my little boate Upon the shoare of ...
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... never did good . You must look for grass on the top of the oak tree . The merry month of May . He'll never climb May - hill ; or , If he can climb over May - hill he'll do.¶ * A Somersetshire proverb . Travels of Two - Pence , 1620 ...
... never did good . You must look for grass on the top of the oak tree . The merry month of May . He'll never climb May - hill ; or , If he can climb over May - hill he'll do.¶ * A Somersetshire proverb . Travels of Two - Pence , 1620 ...
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