Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 17Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... Death . TRANSCRIBED from a printed copy in the British Museum . The idea of Death being employed to execute a writ , reminds the editor of an epitaph which he met with in a village church - yard at the foot of the Wrekin , in Shropshire ...
... Death . TRANSCRIBED from a printed copy in the British Museum . The idea of Death being employed to execute a writ , reminds the editor of an epitaph which he met with in a village church - yard at the foot of the Wrekin , in Shropshire ...
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Percy Society. VI . The Messenger of Mortality : Or Life and Death contrasted in a Dialogue betwixt Death and a Lady . ONE of the most beautiful and plaintive poems of " ' Elia , " ( Charles Lamb ) , was suggested by this old dialogue ...
Percy Society. VI . The Messenger of Mortality : Or Life and Death contrasted in a Dialogue betwixt Death and a Lady . ONE of the most beautiful and plaintive poems of " ' Elia , " ( Charles Lamb ) , was suggested by this old dialogue ...
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... Death of me obtain his will ; Prepare your cordials , let me comfort find , My gold shall fly like chaff before the wind . DEATH . Forbear to call , their skill will never do , They are but mortals here as well as you : I give the fatal ...
... Death of me obtain his will ; Prepare your cordials , let me comfort find , My gold shall fly like chaff before the wind . DEATH . Forbear to call , their skill will never do , They are but mortals here as well as you : I give the fatal ...
Contents
King James I and the Tinkler | 12 |
The Keach i the Creel | 13 |
The Merry Broomfield or the Westcountry Wager | 14 |
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