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Page 114
Forget not yet when first began The weary life , ye know since whan , The suit ,
the service , none tell can ; Forget not yet ! Forget not yet the great assays , The
cruel wrong , the scornful ways , The painful patience in delays , Forget not yet !
Forget not yet when first began The weary life , ye know since whan , The suit ,
the service , none tell can ; Forget not yet ! Forget not yet the great assays , The
cruel wrong , the scornful ways , The painful patience in delays , Forget not yet !
Page 163
... sommer - nights , When youths ply their stoln delights . That the curious may
not know How to tell ' em as they flow , And the envious , when they find What
their number is , be pin ' d . SONG TO CELIA . DRINK to me only with thine
JONSON .
... sommer - nights , When youths ply their stoln delights . That the curious may
not know How to tell ' em as they flow , And the envious , when they find What
their number is , be pin ' d . SONG TO CELIA . DRINK to me only with thine
JONSON .
Page 169
A tell - tale in theyre company They never could endure , And whoe so kept not
secretly Theyre mirth was punisht sure ; It was a just and Christian deed To pinch
such blacke and blew : O how the common - wealth doth need Such justices as ...
A tell - tale in theyre company They never could endure , And whoe so kept not
secretly Theyre mirth was punisht sure ; It was a just and Christian deed To pinch
such blacke and blew : O how the common - wealth doth need Such justices as ...
Page 186
Yet nor the lays of birds , nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in
hue , Could make me any summer ' s story tell , Or from their proud lap pluck
them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the lilies white , Nor praise the deep ...
Yet nor the lays of birds , nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in
hue , Could make me any summer ' s story tell , Or from their proud lap pluck
them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the lilies white , Nor praise the deep ...
Page 190
The gal . lant Pigwiggen is the knight of Lilliputian romance , and the intrigue of
Queen Mab the most amusing on poeti . cal record . The pastoral tale of
Dowsabel is one which every body likes , though no one has been able to tell
precisely for ...
The gal . lant Pigwiggen is the knight of Lilliputian romance , and the intrigue of
Queen Mab the most amusing on poeti . cal record . The pastoral tale of
Dowsabel is one which every body likes , though no one has been able to tell
precisely for ...
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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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