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... night . And thereto hath a truth as just , As had Penelope the fair ; For what she faith , ye may it trust , As it by writing fealed were . And virtues hath the many moe Than I with pen have skill to show . I could rehearse , if that I ...
... night . And thereto hath a truth as just , As had Penelope the fair ; For what she faith , ye may it trust , As it by writing fealed were . And virtues hath the many moe Than I with pen have skill to show . I could rehearse , if that I ...
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... nights that are so cold , Plaining in vain unto the moon ; Thy wishes then dare not be told , Care then who lift , for I have done . And then may chance thee to repent The time that thou haft loft and spent , To cause thy Lover's figh ...
... nights that are so cold , Plaining in vain unto the moon ; Thy wishes then dare not be told , Care then who lift , for I have done . And then may chance thee to repent The time that thou haft loft and spent , To cause thy Lover's figh ...
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... themselves to fave , At all times as they lift . The owl , with feeble fight , Lies lurking in the leaves ; The fparrow , in the frosty night , May shroud her in the eaves . But , woe to me , alas ! In fun ΙΟ ANONYMOUS .
... themselves to fave , At all times as they lift . The owl , with feeble fight , Lies lurking in the leaves ; The fparrow , in the frosty night , May shroud her in the eaves . But , woe to me , alas ! In fun ΙΟ ANONYMOUS .
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... free , my heart was light , I marked not who loft , who faught , * I plaid by day , I flept by night , I forced not who wept , who laugh'd ; Perhaps faved , or won . My thought from all fuch things was free , And ANONYMOUS . II.
... free , my heart was light , I marked not who loft , who faught , * I plaid by day , I flept by night , I forced not who wept , who laugh'd ; Perhaps faved , or won . My thought from all fuch things was free , And ANONYMOUS . II.
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... night In heavy fleep with cares oppreft , Yet when she spies the pleasant light , his puisies appeared in 15772 . his works 1587 . and 1575 ; are reprinted in early all . Chalmer's can of the ports . In the censura litteraria vol 1 p ...
... night In heavy fleep with cares oppreft , Yet when she spies the pleasant light , his puisies appeared in 15772 . his works 1587 . and 1575 ; are reprinted in early all . Chalmer's can of the ports . In the censura litteraria vol 1 p ...
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