Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... fair - attired , Mid rich string of gold , wired ; It helid ( j ) her abouten all To her gentil middle small : ( a ) A saddle - cloth , or housing . Fr. ( b ) Orfrais , aurifrigium , is gold embroidery . ( c ) Organs , cymbals , and all ...
... fair - attired , Mid rich string of gold , wired ; It helid ( j ) her abouten all To her gentil middle small : ( a ) A saddle - cloth , or housing . Fr. ( b ) Orfrais , aurifrigium , is gold embroidery . ( c ) Organs , cymbals , and all ...
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... fair - head in her was . In this same old romance , in which the manners of chivalry are constantly ingrafted on classical his- tory , is found the well - known couplet in its true reading : - Merry swithe it is in halle , When the ...
... fair - head in her was . In this same old romance , in which the manners of chivalry are constantly ingrafted on classical his- tory , is found the well - known couplet in its true reading : - Merry swithe it is in halle , When the ...
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... fair , On either side where wild deer made repair , Set watches out that wisely could them keep , To supper went , and timeously they sleep . Of meat and sleep they cease with suffisaunce . The night was mirk ; overdrave the darksome ...
... fair , On either side where wild deer made repair , Set watches out that wisely could them keep , To supper went , and timeously they sleep . Of meat and sleep they cease with suffisaunce . The night was mirk ; overdrave the darksome ...
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... fair ; and in the corners set An herber green , with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis set Was all the place , and hawthorn hedges knet ; That life was none [ a ] walking there forby , That might within scarce any ...
... fair ; and in the corners set An herber green , with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis set Was all the place , and hawthorn hedges knet ; That life was none [ a ] walking there forby , That might within scarce any ...
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... fair saphire , And , on her head a chaplet fresh of hue , Of plumis , parted red , and white , and blue . XXXI . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richesse , and womanly feature ; God better wrote than my pen can ...
... fair saphire , And , on her head a chaplet fresh of hue , Of plumis , parted red , and white , and blue . XXXI . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richesse , and womanly feature ; God better wrote than my pen can ...
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