Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 12Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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Page xxix
... night , nor sleep by day ; A die , of life or death , the fate did bear , And hope fast faded ' fore increasing fear ; The season too , his ills to increase strove , For Phoebus then through fiery Cancer drove . " * He had been removed ...
... night , nor sleep by day ; A die , of life or death , the fate did bear , And hope fast faded ' fore increasing fear ; The season too , his ills to increase strove , For Phoebus then through fiery Cancer drove . " * He had been removed ...
Page xxxiv
... night , and Sprotinus the cock is the time - keeper . An old wolf , who was lurking close by , had overheard the treaty , and determined , as he was very anxious to make one of the party , to creep in amongst them on the very first ...
... night , and Sprotinus the cock is the time - keeper . An old wolf , who was lurking close by , had overheard the treaty , and determined , as he was very anxious to make one of the party , to creep in amongst them on the very first ...
Page xxxv
... nights , if he will only stay with us . " - " I am very ill , " said the wolf , 66 and what is more , very much astonished , for whoever saw a party of pilgrims carrying with them so many wolves ' heads ? " - " We never catch any but ...
... nights , if he will only stay with us . " - " I am very ill , " said the wolf , 66 and what is more , very much astonished , for whoever saw a party of pilgrims carrying with them so many wolves ' heads ? " - " We never catch any but ...
Page lxxi
... " he laid his wearied back one day , in a most still bed , when the blanket of the night softly enwrapped him and all his woes , " are entirely unknown . history in any of the Teutonic versions , was published ƒ2 lxxi.
... " he laid his wearied back one day , in a most still bed , when the blanket of the night softly enwrapped him and all his woes , " are entirely unknown . history in any of the Teutonic versions , was published ƒ2 lxxi.
Page 58
... night , they myght not stere hande ne foot ; they myght scarsely rore , ne meue ony joynte . Now here how the foxe forth dyde : he hated hem ; he laboured so to the quene , that he gate leue for to haue as moche of the beres skyn vpon ...
... night , they myght not stere hande ne foot ; they myght scarsely rore , ne meue ony joynte . Now here how the foxe forth dyde : he hated hem ; he laboured so to the quene , that he gate leue for to haue as moche of the beres skyn vpon ...
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