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All my merry jigs are quite forgot , All my lady's love is lost , God wot : Where her
faith was firmly fix'd in love , There a nay is placed without remove . One silly
cross wrought all my loss ; O frowning Fortune , cursed , fickle dame ! For now I
see ...
All my merry jigs are quite forgot , All my lady's love is lost , God wot : Where her
faith was firmly fix'd in love , There a nay is placed without remove . One silly
cross wrought all my loss ; O frowning Fortune , cursed , fickle dame ! For now I
see ...
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... as a king , And sweeter , too ; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown ,
And cares can make the sweetest loves to frown : Ah then , ah then , If country
loves such sweet desires do gain , What lady would love a shepherd swain ?
... as a king , And sweeter , too ; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown ,
And cares can make the sweetest loves to frown : Ah then , ah then , If country
loves such sweet desires do gain , What lady would love a shepherd swain ?
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Such as silly shepherds use When they will not love abuse ; Love , which had
been long deluded , Was with kisses sweet concluded : And Phillida , with
garlands gay , Was made the lady of the May . Nicholas Breton . . SEND back my
long ...
Such as silly shepherds use When they will not love abuse ; Love , which had
been long deluded , Was with kisses sweet concluded : And Phillida , with
garlands gay , Was made the lady of the May . Nicholas Breton . . SEND back my
long ...
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SEE the chariot at hand here of Love , Wherein my lady rideth ! Each that draws
is a swan or a dove , And well the car Love guideth . As she goes all hearts do
duty Unto her beauty ; And enamour'd , do wish , as they might But enjoy such a ...
SEE the chariot at hand here of Love , Wherein my lady rideth ! Each that draws
is a swan or a dove , And well the car Love guideth . As she goes all hearts do
duty Unto her beauty ; And enamour'd , do wish , as they might But enjoy such a ...
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Lady , it is already morn ; It was last night I swore to thee That fond impossibility .
Yet have I loved thee well , and long ; A tedious twelve - hours ' space ! I should
all other beauties wrong , And rob thee of a new embrace , Did I still doat upon ...
Lady , it is already morn ; It was last night I swore to thee That fond impossibility .
Yet have I loved thee well , and long ; A tedious twelve - hours ' space ! I should
all other beauties wrong , And rob thee of a new embrace , Did I still doat upon ...
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| Title | Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English Authors Volume 21 of Minerva library of famous books The Minerva Library Volume 21 of The Minerva library of famous books. Ed. by G. T. Bettany. [v. 21] |
| Editors | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Ward, Lock, 1891 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 425 pages |
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