Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... thin , fat bodies leane . Love is a fiend , a fire , a heaven , a hell , Where pleasure , paine , and sad repentance dwell ! There are so manie Danaes now a dayes , That love for lucre , paine for gaine is sold ; No true affection can ...
... thin , fat bodies leane . Love is a fiend , a fire , a heaven , a hell , Where pleasure , paine , and sad repentance dwell ! There are so manie Danaes now a dayes , That love for lucre , paine for gaine is sold ; No true affection can ...
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... thin ; But if the hen moult before the cock , We shall have weather hard as a rock . When the wind is South , It blows the bait to the fish's mouth . If there be a rainbow in the eve , it will rain and leave ; But if there be a rainbow ...
... thin ; But if the hen moult before the cock , We shall have weather hard as a rock . When the wind is South , It blows the bait to the fish's mouth . If there be a rainbow in the eve , it will rain and leave ; But if there be a rainbow ...
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... thin , shear thin . * Though Roman Catholic customs were generally disused under Henry VIII , yet he declared that the bearing of palms on Palm Sunday was to be continued and not cast away . It appears they were borne in England till ...
... thin , shear thin . * Though Roman Catholic customs were generally disused under Henry VIII , yet he declared that the bearing of palms on Palm Sunday was to be continued and not cast away . It appears they were borne in England till ...
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