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... reason or skill ; 3 Howbeit the primordial Of his wretched original , And his base progeny , * And his greasy genealogy , He came of the sank royal 5 That was cast out of a butcher's stall . He would dry up the streams Of nine kings ...
... reason or skill ; 3 Howbeit the primordial Of his wretched original , And his base progeny , * And his greasy genealogy , He came of the sank royal 5 That was cast out of a butcher's stall . He would dry up the streams Of nine kings ...
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... Reason rotten . Thy belt of straw , and ivy - buds , Thy coral clasps , and amber studs , Can me with no enticements move , To live with thee , and be thy love . But could Youth last , could Love still breed ; Had joys no date , had Age ...
... Reason rotten . Thy belt of straw , and ivy - buds , Thy coral clasps , and amber studs , Can me with no enticements move , To live with thee , and be thy love . But could Youth last , could Love still breed ; Had joys no date , had Age ...
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... reason they stand upon , yet will be content to be delighted ; which is all the good - fellow poet seems to promise ... reasons , I think it may be manifest that the poet , with that same hand of delight , doth draw the mind more ...
... reason they stand upon , yet will be content to be delighted ; which is all the good - fellow poet seems to promise ... reasons , I think it may be manifest that the poet , with that same hand of delight , doth draw the mind more ...
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... reason of the succession and continuance of boundless ambition in mortal men , we may add , that the kings and princes of the world have always laid before them the actions , but not the ends of those great ones which preceded them ...
... reason of the succession and continuance of boundless ambition in mortal men , we may add , that the kings and princes of the world have always laid before them the actions , but not the ends of those great ones which preceded them ...
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... reason pretended for it but infirmity and want of health . Our king hereupon taking the seal , and giving it , together with the order of knighthood , to Thomas Audley , Speaker of the Lower House , Sir Thomas More , without acquainting ...
... reason pretended for it but infirmity and want of health . Our king hereupon taking the seal , and giving it , together with the order of knighthood , to Thomas Audley , Speaker of the Lower House , Sir Thomas More , without acquainting ...
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