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Page 54
... blood gushed from the gaping wound , That her gay garments stained with filthy gore , And overflowed all the field around ; That over shoes in blood he waded on the ground . Thereat he roared for exceeding pain , That to have heard ...
... blood gushed from the gaping wound , That her gay garments stained with filthy gore , And overflowed all the field around ; That over shoes in blood he waded on the ground . Thereat he roared for exceeding pain , That to have heard ...
Page 170
... blood ; The earth doth faint and fail ; The stench of blood makes sick the heav'ns ; Ghosts glut the throat of hell ! O what have kings to answer for Before that awful throne ; When thousand deaths for vengeance cry , And ghosts ...
... blood ; The earth doth faint and fail ; The stench of blood makes sick the heav'ns ; Ghosts glut the throat of hell ! O what have kings to answer for Before that awful throne ; When thousand deaths for vengeance cry , And ghosts ...
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... blood and battles was my youth , And full of blood and battles is my age ; And I shall never end this life of blood . ' Then , at the point of death , Sohrab replied : ' A life of blood indeed , thou dreadful man ! But thou shalt yet ...
... blood and battles was my youth , And full of blood and battles is my age ; And I shall never end this life of blood . ' Then , at the point of death , Sohrab replied : ' A life of blood indeed , thou dreadful man ! But thou shalt yet ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400 | 1 |
ROBERT HENRYSON c 14301506 | 7 |
ANONYMOUS | 15 |
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