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Page 40
... wind amongst them did inspire , They waved like a pennon wide disspread , And low behind her back were scattered : And whether art it were , or heedless hap , As through the flowering forest rash she fled , In her rude hairs sweet ...
... wind amongst them did inspire , They waved like a pennon wide disspread , And low behind her back were scattered : And whether art it were , or heedless hap , As through the flowering forest rash she fled , In her rude hairs sweet ...
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... wind Of malice in the calm of pleasant womankind . Divers discourses in their way they spent , Mongst which Cymochles of her questioned , Both what she was , and what that usage meant , Which in her cot she daily practised . Vain man ...
... wind Of malice in the calm of pleasant womankind . Divers discourses in their way they spent , Mongst which Cymochles of her questioned , Both what she was , and what that usage meant , Which in her cot she daily practised . Vain man ...
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... winds , waters , all agree . The joyous birds , shrouded in chearful shade , Their notes unto the voice attempered ... wind low answered to all . There , whence that music seemed heard to be , Was the fair Witch , herself now solacing ...
... winds , waters , all agree . The joyous birds , shrouded in chearful shade , Their notes unto the voice attempered ... wind low answered to all . There , whence that music seemed heard to be , Was the fair Witch , herself now solacing ...
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... wind wag their wriggle tails Peark as a peacock ; but now it avails . Thenot . Leudly complainest , thou lazy lad , Of winter's wrack for making thee sad ? Must not the world wend in his common course , From good to bad , and from bad ...
... wind wag their wriggle tails Peark as a peacock ; but now it avails . Thenot . Leudly complainest , thou lazy lad , Of winter's wrack for making thee sad ? Must not the world wend in his common course , From good to bad , and from bad ...
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... wind , yet doth it firmly stand ; And running from the top , although it never cease , Yet doth the foot thereof , no whit at all increase . Nor is it at the top , the lower or the less , As nature had ordain'd , that so its own excess ...
... wind , yet doth it firmly stand ; And running from the top , although it never cease , Yet doth the foot thereof , no whit at all increase . Nor is it at the top , the lower or the less , As nature had ordain'd , that so its own excess ...
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