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Page 49
... wings , The morn not waking till she fings . Hark , hark , with what a pretty throat , Poor Robin red - breaft tunes his note ; Hark how the jolly cuckoos fing Cuckoo , to welcome in the spring . SONG . O FOR a bowl of fat Canary , Rich ...
... wings , The morn not waking till she fings . Hark , hark , with what a pretty throat , Poor Robin red - breaft tunes his note ; Hark how the jolly cuckoos fing Cuckoo , to welcome in the spring . SONG . O FOR a bowl of fat Canary , Rich ...
Page 79
... wing doth go . What fools are they that have not known That love likes no laws but his own . My fongs they be of Cynthia's praife , I wear her rings on holidays , On every tree I write her name , And every day I read the fame ; Where ...
... wing doth go . What fools are they that have not known That love likes no laws but his own . My fongs they be of Cynthia's praife , I wear her rings on holidays , On every tree I write her name , And every day I read the fame ; Where ...
Page 115
... , You may know him among twenty : All his body is a fire , And his breath a flame entire : Which , being shot like lightning in , Wounds the heart , but not the skin . Wings he hath , which though ye clip , He BEN JONSON . 115.
... , You may know him among twenty : All his body is a fire , And his breath a flame entire : Which , being shot like lightning in , Wounds the heart , but not the skin . Wings he hath , which though ye clip , He BEN JONSON . 115.
Page 116
George Ellis. Wings he hath , which though ye clip , He will leap from lip to lip : Over liver , lights , and heart , Yet not stay in any part . And if chance his arrow miffes , He will fhoot himself in kiffes . He doth bear a golden bow ...
George Ellis. Wings he hath , which though ye clip , He will leap from lip to lip : Over liver , lights , and heart , Yet not stay in any part . And if chance his arrow miffes , He will fhoot himself in kiffes . He doth bear a golden bow ...
Page 123
... wings to fly away , Has now no power to make him stay . And though these games must needs be play'd , I wish this pair , when they are laid , And not a.creature nigh ' em , Might catch his scythe as he does pass , And clip his wings ...
... wings to fly away , Has now no power to make him stay . And though these games must needs be play'd , I wish this pair , when they are laid , And not a.creature nigh ' em , Might catch his scythe as he does pass , And clip his wings ...
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