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... speak of him slain By the sweetness of mead , His comrades shall call him One killed by himself . To one God shall grant To get through in his youth All the days of distress , That , his sorrow dispersed , His old age becomes easy With ...
... speak of him slain By the sweetness of mead , His comrades shall call him One killed by himself . To one God shall grant To get through in his youth All the days of distress , That , his sorrow dispersed , His old age becomes easy With ...
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... speak in his own person , but stands generally for that advancing evil against which good Churchmen , clergy and laity alike , were uttering their protest . The satire is sweeping , but the satirist is himself one of the clergy . The ...
... speak in his own person , but stands generally for that advancing evil against which good Churchmen , clergy and laity alike , were uttering their protest . The satire is sweeping , but the satirist is himself one of the clergy . The ...
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... speak reproach and check . At dinner when they sit , to which they go apace , Their jaws are very swift , their teeth much pain do take , Their throat an open grave , their stomach in like case A foaming whirlpool is , each finger is a ...
... speak reproach and check . At dinner when they sit , to which they go apace , Their jaws are very swift , their teeth much pain do take , Their throat an open grave , their stomach in like case A foaming whirlpool is , each finger is a ...
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... speak words while they're green Sooner than they are ripe . " The fool's bolt is soon shot ; " Quoth Hendyng . ] Wis mon holt is wordes ynne ; For he nul no gle bygynne Ere he have tempred is pype . Sot is sot , ant that is sene ; For ...
... speak words while they're green Sooner than they are ripe . " The fool's bolt is soon shot ; " Quoth Hendyng . ] Wis mon holt is wordes ynne ; For he nul no gle bygynne Ere he have tempred is pype . Sot is sot , ant that is sene ; For ...
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... speak of a man as " well on for fifty , " or " well - nigh dead . " 11 The Black Monks were the Benedictines , the White Monks the Augustinians ; the White Friars were Carmelites , the Grey Friars Franciscans . " 12 Likfullest . From ...
... speak of a man as " well on for fifty , " or " well - nigh dead . " 11 The Black Monks were the Benedictines , the White Monks the Augustinians ; the White Friars were Carmelites , the Grey Friars Franciscans . " 12 Likfullest . From ...
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