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Page 39
Or if men smote it with a yerdè ( a ) smert : ( ) And all was conscience and tendre
herte . Ful semely hire wimple ypinched was ; Hire nose tretis ; ( c ) hire eyen
grey as glas ; Hire mouth ful smale , and therto soft and red ; But sikerly she
hadde a ...
Or if men smote it with a yerdè ( a ) smert : ( ) And all was conscience and tendre
herte . Ful semely hire wimple ypinched was ; Hire nose tretis ; ( c ) hire eyen
grey as glas ; Hire mouth ful smale , and therto soft and red ; But sikerly she
hadde a ...
Page 66
And on the smalle greene twistis sat The little sweete nightingale , and sung , So
loud and clear , the hymnis consecrate Of lovis use , now soft , now loud among ,
That all the gardens and the wallis rung Right of their song ; and on the couple ...
And on the smalle greene twistis sat The little sweete nightingale , and sung , So
loud and clear , the hymnis consecrate Of lovis use , now soft , now loud among ,
That all the gardens and the wallis rung Right of their song ; and on the couple ...
Page 96
Even against this last shock her love is proof :SHE , Though in the wode I
undyrstode Ye had a paramour , All this may nought remove my thought , But that
I wyll be your : And she shall fynde me soft , and kynde , And courteys every hour
...
Even against this last shock her love is proof :SHE , Though in the wode I
undyrstode Ye had a paramour , All this may nought remove my thought , But that
I wyll be your : And she shall fynde me soft , and kynde , And courteys every hour
...
Page 131
The joyous birdes , shrouded in chearefull shade , Their notes unto the voice
attempred sweet , Th ' angelical soft trembling voyces made To th ' instruments
divine respondence meet ; The silver - sounding instruments did meet With the
base ...
The joyous birdes , shrouded in chearefull shade , Their notes unto the voice
attempred sweet , Th ' angelical soft trembling voyces made To th ' instruments
divine respondence meet ; The silver - sounding instruments did meet With the
base ...
Page 132
... many covert groves , and thickets close , In which they creeping did at last
display That wanton lady with her lover lose , Whose sleepie head she in her lap
did soft dispose . Upon a bed of roses she was layd , As faint through heat , or
dight ...
... many covert groves , and thickets close , In which they creeping did at last
display That wanton lady with her lover lose , Whose sleepie head she in her lap
did soft dispose . Upon a bed of roses she was layd , As faint through heat , or
dight ...
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| Title | 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, |
| Author | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Editor | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Contributor | Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Publisher | Oliver & Boyd, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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