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Page 264
The conscience , friend , to have lost them overplied In liberty's defense , my noble task , Of which all Europe talks from side to side . This thought might lead me through the world's vain masque , Content though blind , had I no ...
The conscience , friend , to have lost them overplied In liberty's defense , my noble task , Of which all Europe talks from side to side . This thought might lead me through the world's vain masque , Content though blind , had I no ...
Page 395
... It was sic a deadly storm ; And the waves came o'er the broken ship , Till a ' her sides were torn . ... fetch a web o ' the silken claith , Another o ' the twine , And wap them into our ships ' side , And let na the sea come in .
... It was sic a deadly storm ; And the waves came o'er the broken ship , Till a ' her sides were torn . ... fetch a web o ' the silken claith , Another o ' the twine , And wap them into our ships ' side , And let na the sea come in .
Page 494
She sighs for ever on her pensive bed , Pain at her side , and Megrim at her head . Two handmaids wait the throne : alike in place , But diff'ring far in figure and in face . Here stood Ill - nature like an ancient maid , Her wrinkled ...
She sighs for ever on her pensive bed , Pain at her side , and Megrim at her head . Two handmaids wait the throne : alike in place , But diff'ring far in figure and in face . Here stood Ill - nature like an ancient maid , Her wrinkled ...
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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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