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... fair forehead . It was almost a span broad I trow , For certainly she was not undergrowne . Full handsome was her cloak , as I was ' ware : Of small coral about her arm she bare A pair of beads , gauded all with green ; And thereon hung ...
... fair forehead . It was almost a span broad I trow , For certainly she was not undergrowne . Full handsome was her cloak , as I was ' ware : Of small coral about her arm she bare A pair of beads , gauded all with green ; And thereon hung ...
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... fair prelate , He was not pale as a tormented ghost ; A fat swan loved he best of any roast : His palfrey was as brown as is a berry . A good man there was of religion , That was a poor PARSONE of a town ; But rich he was in holy ...
... fair prelate , He was not pale as a tormented ghost ; A fat swan loved he best of any roast : His palfrey was as brown as is a berry . A good man there was of religion , That was a poor PARSONE of a town ; But rich he was in holy ...
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... fair marching by the way , Together with his squire , arrayed meet : His glittering armour shined far away , Like glancing light of Phoebus ' brightest ray ; From top to toe no place appeared bare , That deadly dint of steel endanger ...
... fair marching by the way , Together with his squire , arrayed meet : His glittering armour shined far away , Like glancing light of Phoebus ' brightest ray ; From top to toe no place appeared bare , That deadly dint of steel endanger ...
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... fair round belly , with good capon lined , With eyes severe , and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon ; With spectacles on ...
... fair round belly , with good capon lined , With eyes severe , and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon ; With spectacles on ...
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... fair , Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works , to me expunged and rased , And wisdom , at one entrance , quite shut out . So much the rather thou , celestial Light , Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers ...
... fair , Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works , to me expunged and rased , And wisdom , at one entrance , quite shut out . So much the rather thou , celestial Light , Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers ...
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