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Page 64
... whofe top an hawthorn blows , Amid whofe thickly - woven boughs Some nightingale ftill builds her neft , Each evening warbling thee to reft . Then lay me by the haunted fiream , Wrapt in fome wild , poetick dream ; In converfe while ...
... whofe top an hawthorn blows , Amid whofe thickly - woven boughs Some nightingale ftill builds her neft , Each evening warbling thee to reft . Then lay me by the haunted fiream , Wrapt in fome wild , poetick dream ; In converfe while ...
Page 163
... whofe characters are therefore fitteft for Comedy , in which Humour is reckoned the trueft Wit . The Duke of Buckinghamshire , a very good judge of these matters , makes Humour to be all in all . Wit , according to him , fhould never be ...
... whofe characters are therefore fitteft for Comedy , in which Humour is reckoned the trueft Wit . The Duke of Buckinghamshire , a very good judge of these matters , makes Humour to be all in all . Wit , according to him , fhould never be ...
Page 353
... whofe vifage good Both pale and wan , with dust and gore defil'd , Yet fpake , though dead ; with whofe fad words the blood Forth at his lips in huge abundance boil'd- Fly , Argillan , from this false camp fly far , Whofe guide a ...
... whofe vifage good Both pale and wan , with dust and gore defil'd , Yet fpake , though dead ; with whofe fad words the blood Forth at his lips in huge abundance boil'd- Fly , Argillan , from this false camp fly far , Whofe guide a ...
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