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... hart , And , raging now therein with restlesse stowre , Doest tyrannize in everie weaker part , Faine would I seeke to ease my bitter smart By any service I might do to thee , 5 Or ought that else might to thee pleasing bee . And now t ...
... hart , And , raging now therein with restlesse stowre , Doest tyrannize in everie weaker part , Faine would I seeke to ease my bitter smart By any service I might do to thee , 5 Or ought that else might to thee pleasing bee . And now t ...
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... hart of her Whose love before their life they doe prefer . So hast thou often done ( ay me , the more ! ) To me thy vassall , whose yet bleeding hart 140 With thousand wounds thou mangled hast so sore , That whole remaines scarse any ...
... hart of her Whose love before their life they doe prefer . So hast thou often done ( ay me , the more ! ) To me thy vassall , whose yet bleeding hart 140 With thousand wounds thou mangled hast so sore , That whole remaines scarse any ...
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... hart - fretting feare , The vaine surmizes , the distrustfull showes , The false reports that flying tales doe beare , The doubts , the daungers , the delayes , the woes , The fayned friends , the unassured foes , With thousands more ...
... hart - fretting feare , The vaine surmizes , the distrustfull showes , The false reports that flying tales doe beare , The doubts , the daungers , the delayes , the woes , The fayned friends , the unassured foes , With thousands more ...
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... hart , 25 After long sorrow and consuming smart . [ did cast WHAT TIME THIS WORLDS GREAT WORKMAISTER 30 To make al things such as we now behold , It seems that he before his eyes had plast A goodly paterne , to whose perfect mould He ...
... hart , 25 After long sorrow and consuming smart . [ did cast WHAT TIME THIS WORLDS GREAT WORKMAISTER 30 To make al things such as we now behold , It seems that he before his eyes had plast A goodly paterne , to whose perfect mould He ...
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... hart , And therein stirre such rage and restlesse stowre , As nought but death can stint his dolours smart ? Or can proportion of the outward part Move such affection in the inward mynd , That it can rob both sense , and reason blynd ...
... hart , And therein stirre such rage and restlesse stowre , As nought but death can stint his dolours smart ? Or can proportion of the outward part Move such affection in the inward mynd , That it can rob both sense , and reason blynd ...
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Page 137 - Sun, shew forth thy favourable ray, And let thy lifull heat not fervent be, For feare of burning her sunshyny face, Her beauty to disgrace.
Page 138 - Arysing forth to run her mighty race, Clad all in white, that seems a Virgin best. So well it her beseems, that ye would weene Some Angell she had beene.
Page 138 - Upon the lowly ground affixed are; Ne dare lift up her countenance too bold, But blush to heare her prayses sung so loud, So farre from being proud.
Page 284 - Doth rather choose to sit in idle Cell, Than so himselfe to mockerie to sell. So am I made the servant of the manie, And laughing stocke of all that list to scorne, Not honored nor cared for of anie...
Page 136 - T' awayt the comming of your joyous make, And hearken to the birds love-learned song, The deawy leaves among? For they of joy and pleasance to you sing, That all the woods them answer, and...
Page 139 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
Page 48 - Their joy, their comfort, their desire, their gaine, Is fixed all on that which now they see, All other sights but fayned shadowes bee.
Page 172 - Out of her course doth wander far astray; So I, whose star, that wont with her bright ray Me to direct, with clouds is overcast, Do wander now, in darkness and dismay, Through hidden perils round about me placed.
Page 141 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty, That suffers not one look to glance awry Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 283 - And he, the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock her selfe, and truth to imitate, With kindly counter* under mimick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late: With whom all ioy and iolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent**.