Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
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... maids must kiss no men , Till they do for good and all . Then she made the shepherd call All the heavens to witness , truth Never loved a truer youth . Thus , with many a pretty oath , Yea , and nay , and faith and troth ! - Such as ...
... maids must kiss no men , Till they do for good and all . Then she made the shepherd call All the heavens to witness , truth Never loved a truer youth . Thus , with many a pretty oath , Yea , and nay , and faith and troth ! - Such as ...
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... maid . The maid , and thereby hangs a tale , For such a maid no Whitsun - ale Could ever yet produce : No grape that's kindly ripe , could be So round , so soft , so plump as she Nor half so full of juice . Her finger was so small , the ...
... maid . The maid , and thereby hangs a tale , For such a maid no Whitsun - ale Could ever yet produce : No grape that's kindly ripe , could be So round , so soft , so plump as she Nor half so full of juice . Her finger was so small , the ...
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... maid , Without a conscious blush , may give Beneath the myrtle shade . LXVI . Sir Charles Sedley . ' Tis not your saying that you love Can ease me of my smart ; Your actions must your words approve , Or else you break my heart . In vain ...
... maid , Without a conscious blush , may give Beneath the myrtle shade . LXVI . Sir Charles Sedley . ' Tis not your saying that you love Can ease me of my smart ; Your actions must your words approve , Or else you break my heart . In vain ...
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... maid ? " Matthew Prior . XCIX . HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING . LET it not your wonder move , Less your laughter , that I love . Tho ' I now write fifty years , I have had , and have my peers ; Poets , tho ' divine , are men : Some have loved ...
... maid ? " Matthew Prior . XCIX . HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING . LET it not your wonder move , Less your laughter , that I love . Tho ' I now write fifty years , I have had , and have my peers ; Poets , tho ' divine , are men : Some have loved ...
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... maid , if it miscarries . Humbly sheweth , That I went to warm myself in Lady Betty's chamber , because I was cold , And I had in a purse seven pounds , four shillings , and six- pence , besides farthings , in money and gold : So ...
... maid , if it miscarries . Humbly sheweth , That I went to warm myself in Lady Betty's chamber , because I was cold , And I had in a purse seven pounds , four shillings , and six- pence , besides farthings , in money and gold : So ...
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