Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: Lord mayors' pageantsJohnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 78
... called " The Discontented Cava- lier , " which contains some very severe allusions to the carelessness and ingratitude of Charles and his court ; the third on the instability of all things , endeavoured to be conveyed in the words of ...
... called " The Discontented Cava- lier , " which contains some very severe allusions to the carelessness and ingratitude of Charles and his court ; the third on the instability of all things , endeavoured to be conveyed in the words of ...
Page 67
... called Vertumnus à vertendo , because he indented , or turned the course of the river Tyber , which floweth up to Rome , as the Thames to London . He was a king , and reigned in the Carpathian Island , which , because it was full of ...
... called Vertumnus à vertendo , because he indented , or turned the course of the river Tyber , which floweth up to Rome , as the Thames to London . He was a king , and reigned in the Carpathian Island , which , because it was full of ...
Page 165
... called the Island of Zelon , not far distant from the point of India called Cape Comerin , which for fertility may be compared to any country in the whole universe . It abounds in odoriferous aromatical spices , with whole woods of the ...
... called the Island of Zelon , not far distant from the point of India called Cape Comerin , which for fertility may be compared to any country in the whole universe . It abounds in odoriferous aromatical spices , with whole woods of the ...
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