Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Percy Society. I have a pleasant noted nightingale , That sings as sweetly as the silver swan , Kept in a cage of bone as white as whale , Which I with singing of Philemon wan : Her shalt thou have , and all I have beside , If thou wilt ...
Percy Society. I have a pleasant noted nightingale , That sings as sweetly as the silver swan , Kept in a cage of bone as white as whale , Which I with singing of Philemon wan : Her shalt thou have , and all I have beside , If thou wilt ...
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... Singing a jigge or merry roundelay , For who sings commonly so merry a noate , As he that cannot chop or change a groate ? And in the winter nights his chiefe desire , He turnes a crabbe or cracknell in the fire . He leads his wench a ...
... Singing a jigge or merry roundelay , For who sings commonly so merry a noate , As he that cannot chop or change a groate ? And in the winter nights his chiefe desire , He turnes a crabbe or cracknell in the fire . He leads his wench a ...
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... sing a merry tune ; He who bathes in July , Will dance like a fly . A swarm of bees in May , † Is worth a load of hay ; * The present month ( May ) being one when very severe colds are often caught by others as well as bathers , it may ...
... sing a merry tune ; He who bathes in July , Will dance like a fly . A swarm of bees in May , † Is worth a load of hay ; * The present month ( May ) being one when very severe colds are often caught by others as well as bathers , it may ...
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