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... peeping fearfully : All our pleasure known to us poor swains , All our merry
meetings on the plains , All our ening sport from us iš fled , All our Love is lost , for
Love is dead . Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For 4 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... peeping fearfully : All our pleasure known to us poor swains , All our merry
meetings on the plains , All our ening sport from us iš fled , All our Love is lost , for
Love is dead . Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For 4 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For a sweet content , the cause of all my
moan : Poor Coridon must live alone ; Other help for him I see that there is none .
William Shakspere . VII . A RENUNCIATION . IF women could be fair , and yet ...
Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For a sweet content , the cause of all my
moan : Poor Coridon must live alone ; Other help for him I see that there is none .
William Shakspere . VII . A RENUNCIATION . IF women could be fair , and yet ...
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Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words tho ' ne'er so witty ; A beggar that
is dumb , you know , May challenge double pity . Then wrong not , dearest to my
heart , My true , tho ' secret passion ; He smarteth most that hides his smart , And
...
Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words tho ' ne'er so witty ; A beggar that
is dumb , you know , May challenge double pity . Then wrong not , dearest to my
heart , My true , tho ' secret passion ; He smarteth most that hides his smart , And
...
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Those that bear a noble mind Where they want of riches find , Think what with
them they would do Who without them dare to woo : And unless that mind I see ,
What care I tho ' great she be ? Great or good , or kind or fair , I will ne'er the more
...
Those that bear a noble mind Where they want of riches find , Think what with
them they would do Who without them dare to woo : And unless that mind I see ,
What care I tho ' great she be ? Great or good , or kind or fair , I will ne'er the more
...
Page 55
WELL then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree ; The
very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they ,
methinks , deserve my pity , Who for it can endure the stings , The crowd , and
buz , and ...
WELL then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree ; The
very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they ,
methinks , deserve my pity , Who for it can endure the stings , The crowd , and
buz , and ...
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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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