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Page 122
Who knows himself a braggart , Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass . Rust , sword ! cool , blushes ! and Parolles , live Safest in shame ! being fool'd , by foolery thrive !
Who knows himself a braggart , Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass . Rust , sword ! cool , blushes ! and Parolles , live Safest in shame ! being fool'd , by foolery thrive !
Page 494
Safe pass'd the gnome through this fantastic band , A branch of healing spleen - wort in his hand . Then thus address'd the power : ' Hail , wayward Queen ! Who rule the sex to fifty from fifteen ; Parent of vapours , and of female wit ...
Safe pass'd the gnome through this fantastic band , A branch of healing spleen - wort in his hand . Then thus address'd the power : ' Hail , wayward Queen ! Who rule the sex to fifty from fifteen ; Parent of vapours , and of female wit ...
Page 513
I ne'er with wits or witlings pass'd my days , To spread about the itch of verse and praise ; Nor like a puppy , daggled through the town , To fetch and carry , sing - song up and down ; Nor at rehearsals sweat , and mouth'd , and cried ...
I ne'er with wits or witlings pass'd my days , To spread about the itch of verse and praise ; Nor like a puppy , daggled through the town , To fetch and carry , sing - song up and down ; Nor at rehearsals sweat , and mouth'd , and cried ...
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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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