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... HAPPY dames ! that may embrace The fruit of your delight , Help to bewail the woful case And eke the heavy plight Of me , that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice : Good ladies , help to fill my mourning voice . In ship ...
... HAPPY dames ! that may embrace The fruit of your delight , Help to bewail the woful case And eke the heavy plight Of me , that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice : Good ladies , help to fill my mourning voice . In ship ...
Page 67
... Happy Life MARTIAL , the things that do attain The happy life be these , I find : — The richesse left , not got with pain ; The fruitful ground , the quiet mind ; 40. drencheth ] i . e . is drenched or drowned . The equal friend ; no ...
... Happy Life MARTIAL , the things that do attain The happy life be these , I find : — The richesse left , not got with pain ; The fruitful ground , the quiet mind ; 40. drencheth ] i . e . is drenched or drowned . The equal friend ; no ...
Page 69
... happy , happy land ! Where Mars and Pallas strive to make their glory most to stand ! Yet , land , more is thy bliss that , in this cruel age , A Venus ' imp thou hast brought forth , so steadfast and so sage . Among the Muses Nine a ...
... happy , happy land ! Where Mars and Pallas strive to make their glory most to stand ! Yet , land , more is thy bliss that , in this cruel age , A Venus ' imp thou hast brought forth , so steadfast and so sage . Among the Muses Nine a ...
Page 91
... happy home , When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end , Thy joys when shall I see ? O happy , harbour of the Saints ! O sweet and pleasant soil ! In thee no sorrow may be found , No grief , no care , no toil . There ...
... happy home , When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end , Thy joys when shall I see ? O happy , harbour of the Saints ! O sweet and pleasant soil ! In thee no sorrow may be found , No grief , no care , no toil . There ...
Page 92
... bear their part , Sitting about her feet . Hierusalem , my happy home , Would God I were in thee ! Would God my woes were at an end , Thy joys that I might see ! 62 . Icarus Robert Jones's Second Book of Songs and 92 ANONYMOUS.
... bear their part , Sitting about her feet . Hierusalem , my happy home , Would God I were in thee ! Would God my woes were at an end , Thy joys that I might see ! 62 . Icarus Robert Jones's Second Book of Songs and 92 ANONYMOUS.
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