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... pleasure's palace ; it may soon be spied , And day and night her doors to all stand open wide . ALLEGORY OF WANTON MIRTH . A harder lesson to learn continence In joyous pleasure than in grievous pain : For , sweetness doth allure the ...
... pleasure's palace ; it may soon be spied , And day and night her doors to all stand open wide . ALLEGORY OF WANTON MIRTH . A harder lesson to learn continence In joyous pleasure than in grievous pain : For , sweetness doth allure the ...
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... pleasure lewd ; Wherewith she sighed soft , as if his case she rued . The while , some one did chaunt this lovely lay ; " Ah see , whose fair thing dost fain to see , In springing flower the image of thy day ; Ah see the virgin rose ...
... pleasure lewd ; Wherewith she sighed soft , as if his case she rued . The while , some one did chaunt this lovely lay ; " Ah see , whose fair thing dost fain to see , In springing flower the image of thy day ; Ah see the virgin rose ...
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... Pleasure , careless of your toyes , Thinks more upon her Paradise of joyes Than what you do , all be it good or ill ... pleasures with thee wrought : Therefore to us be favourable now , And sith of women's labours thou hast charge , And ...
... Pleasure , careless of your toyes , Thinks more upon her Paradise of joyes Than what you do , all be it good or ill ... pleasures with thee wrought : Therefore to us be favourable now , And sith of women's labours thou hast charge , And ...
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... pleasures will command ; [ seen , No wood - nymph as herself such troops had ever Nor can such quarries boast as ... pleasure stor❜d : and here my song com- plete . THE XXVIII . SONG OF THE SAME . THE ARGUMENT . Three shires at once ...
... pleasures will command ; [ seen , No wood - nymph as herself such troops had ever Nor can such quarries boast as ... pleasure stor❜d : and here my song com- plete . THE XXVIII . SONG OF THE SAME . THE ARGUMENT . Three shires at once ...
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With Critical Remarks William Hazlitt. Though of all those pleasures past Nothing now remains at last But remembrance ( poor ... pleasure to her height Through the meanest object's sight . By the murmur of a spring , Or the least bough's ...
With Critical Remarks William Hazlitt. Though of all those pleasures past Nothing now remains at last But remembrance ( poor ... pleasure to her height Through the meanest object's sight . By the murmur of a spring , Or the least bough's ...
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