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The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters and Plays - Page 32
by Sir John Suckling - 1709 - 376 pages
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Single Famous Poems

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...Thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit SIR JOHN SUCKLING. ge ©nttlrmen of ©nglanti. YE gentlemen of England That live at home...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 245

Early English newspapers - 1878 - 806 pages
...Thoud'st swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. " Of Suckling's four plays, sprinkled as they are with fine passages, we are not able...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still g eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; So sad spent a whit. SIR JOIIM SUCKLING. THE BRIDE. FROM " THF. KPITHALAMION." LOE ! where she comes along...
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The English Poets: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...Thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. Just in the nick the cook knocked thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. PRITHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART. I PRITHEE send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine...
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Specimens, with memoirs, of the less-known British poets. With an ..., Volume 1

George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...Thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. 13 If wishing should be any sin, The parson himself had guilty been, She look'd that...
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Fair Words about Fair Woman

Oliver Bell Bunce - Women in literature - 1883 - 332 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get : But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. BY RICHARD LOVELACE. A MARANTHA, sweet and fair, **• Oh, braid no more that shining...
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Rare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

William James Linton - English poetry - 1883 - 296 pages
...Thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. If wishing should be any sin The parson himself had guilty been, She look'd that day...
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Chaucer to Burns

William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. If wishing should be any sin The parson himself had guilty been, She look'd that day...
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Gems for the Fireside: Comprising the Most Unique, Touching, Pithy, and ...

Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break. That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better. And are not spent a whit. LIFE. HENRY KING. |IKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or...
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