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... hope to standen in his ladies grace . Embroidered was he , as it were a meade All full of fresh flowers , white and red , Singing he was , or fluting all the day , He was as fresh as is the month of May . Short was his gown , with ...
... hope to standen in his ladies grace . Embroidered was he , as it were a meade All full of fresh flowers , white and red , Singing he was , or fluting all the day , He was as fresh as is the month of May . Short was his gown , with ...
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... hope , to - morrow blossoms , And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost , a killing frost ; And , when he thinks , good easy man , full surely His greatness was a ripening , -nips his root , And then he ...
... hope , to - morrow blossoms , And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost , a killing frost ; And , when he thinks , good easy man , full surely His greatness was a ripening , -nips his root , And then he ...
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... hope again . Cromwell , I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman . Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me , Cromwell ; And , when I am forgotten , as I ...
... hope again . Cromwell , I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman . Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me , Cromwell ; And , when I am forgotten , as I ...
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... hope of day ! O , first - created Beam , and thou , great Word , ' Let there be light , ' and light was over all , Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon , When she deserts the night , Hid ...
... hope of day ! O , first - created Beam , and thou , great Word , ' Let there be light , ' and light was over all , Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon , When she deserts the night , Hid ...
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... hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired , and me though mean Drawn to his part ; but other powers as great Fell not , but stood unshaken from within , Or from without , to all temptations ...
... hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired , and me though mean Drawn to his part ; but other powers as great Fell not , but stood unshaken from within , Or from without , to all temptations ...
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