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Page 47
... hill , and eke the vale , The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her make 2 hath told her tale . Summer is come , for every spray now springs . The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his ...
... hill , and eke the vale , The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her make 2 hath told her tale . Summer is come , for every spray now springs . The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his ...
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... hills , Well able to endure ; Theire backsides all , with speciall care , That day were guarded sure . The hounds ran swiftly through the woods , The nimble deere to take , That with their cryes the hills and dales An eccho shrill did ...
... hills , Well able to endure ; Theire backsides all , with speciall care , That day were guarded sure . The hounds ran swiftly through the woods , The nimble deere to take , That with their cryes the hills and dales An eccho shrill did ...
Page 80
... hill or field , Or wood and steepy mountain yield . Where we will sit on rising rocks , And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . Pleased will I make thee beds of roses ...
... hill or field , Or wood and steepy mountain yield . Where we will sit on rising rocks , And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . Pleased will I make thee beds of roses ...
Page 83
... hills and open plain , Where others ' liberty makes him complain The more his own , and grieves his soul the more , Conferring captive crowns with freedom poor . 1 O happy man , saith he , that lo I see , Grazing his cattle in those ...
... hills and open plain , Where others ' liberty makes him complain The more his own , and grieves his soul the more , Conferring captive crowns with freedom poor . 1 O happy man , saith he , that lo I see , Grazing his cattle in those ...
Page 85
... hills and vallies ring , and even the echoing air Seems all compos'd of sounds , about them everywhere . 49. SIR JOHN DAVIES . 1570-1626 . ( Manual , p . 81. ) FROM THE NOSCE TEIPSUM . As spiders , touch'd , seek their web's inmost part ...
... hills and vallies ring , and even the echoing air Seems all compos'd of sounds , about them everywhere . 49. SIR JOHN DAVIES . 1570-1626 . ( Manual , p . 81. ) FROM THE NOSCE TEIPSUM . As spiders , touch'd , seek their web's inmost part ...
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