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Let no false treason seeke vs to entrap , Nor any dread disquiet once annoy The safety of our ioy : But let the night be calme and quietsome , Without tempestuous storms or sad afray : Lyke as when loue with fayre Alcmena lay , When he ...
Let no false treason seeke vs to entrap , Nor any dread disquiet once annoy The safety of our ioy : But let the night be calme and quietsome , Without tempestuous storms or sad afray : Lyke as when loue with fayre Alcmena lay , When he ...
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Begging Another , on Colour of Mending the Former For Love's sake , kiss me once again , I long , and should not beg in vain , Here's none to spy , or see ; Why do you doubt , or stay ? I'll taste as lightly as the bee , That doth but ...
Begging Another , on Colour of Mending the Former For Love's sake , kiss me once again , I long , and should not beg in vain , Here's none to spy , or see ; Why do you doubt , or stay ? I'll taste as lightly as the bee , That doth but ...
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Some demon stole my pen ( forgive the offence ) And once betrayed me into common sense : Else all my prose and verse were much the same ; This prose on stilts , that poetry fall'n lame . Did on the stage my fops appear confined ?
Some demon stole my pen ( forgive the offence ) And once betrayed me into common sense : Else all my prose and verse were much the same ; This prose on stilts , that poetry fall'n lame . Did on the stage my fops appear confined ?
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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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