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Whose blood is fet from fathers of war - proof ; Fathers that , like so many Alexanders , Have in these parts from morn til even fought , And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument . Dishonour not your mothers ; now attest That ...
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war - proof ; Fathers that , like so many Alexanders , Have in these parts from morn til even fought , And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument . Dishonour not your mothers ; now attest That ...
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I know not , gentlemen , what you intend , Who else must be let blood , who else is rank : If I myself , there is no hour so fit As Cæsar's death's hour , nor no instrument Of half that worth as those your swords , made rich With the ...
I know not , gentlemen , what you intend , Who else must be let blood , who else is rank : If I myself , there is no hour so fit As Cæsar's death's hour , nor no instrument Of half that worth as those your swords , made rich With the ...
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Oh ! of thine only worthy blood , And my tears , make a heavenly Lethean flood , And drown in it my sin's black memory ; That Thou remember them , some claim as debt , I think it mercy , if Thou wilt forget . х DEATH be not proud ...
Oh ! of thine only worthy blood , And my tears , make a heavenly Lethean flood , And drown in it my sin's black memory ; That Thou remember them , some claim as debt , I think it mercy , if Thou wilt forget . х DEATH be not proud ...
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
GEORGE CHAPMAN 15601634 | 54 |
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| Title | The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spencer to Crabbe Oxford Paperbacks Volume 1 of The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Oxford library of English poetry |
| Author | Oxford library of English poetry |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192827987, 9780192827982 |
| Length | 659 pages |
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