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Page 52
Ne shame he thought to shun so hideous might : The idle stroke , enforcing furious way , Missing the mark of his misaimed sight , Did fall to ground , and with his heavy sway So deeply dinted in the driven clay , That three yards deep a ...
Ne shame he thought to shun so hideous might : The idle stroke , enforcing furious way , Missing the mark of his misaimed sight , Did fall to ground , and with his heavy sway So deeply dinted in the driven clay , That three yards deep a ...
Page 55
Whom when his mistress proud perceived to fall , Whiles yet his feeble feet for faintness reeled , Unto the giant loudly she ' O help Orgoglio , help , or else we perish all . ' At her so piteous cry was much amoved Her champion stout ...
Whom when his mistress proud perceived to fall , Whiles yet his feeble feet for faintness reeled , Unto the giant loudly she ' O help Orgoglio , help , or else we perish all . ' At her so piteous cry was much amoved Her champion stout ...
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He spying Hudibras lie strewed Upon the grass , like log of wood , With fright of fall , supposed wound , And loss of urine , in a swound , In haste he snatched the wooden limb That , hurt in th ' ankle , lay by him , And fitting it for ...
He spying Hudibras lie strewed Upon the grass , like log of wood , With fright of fall , supposed wound , And loss of urine , in a swound , In haste he snatched the wooden limb That , hurt in th ' ankle , lay by him , And fitting it for ...
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Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400 | 1 |
ROBERT HENRYSON c 14301506 | 7 |
ANONYMOUS | 15 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Penguin Book of Narrative Verse Part 49 of Penguin poets |
| Editor | David Herbert |
| Compiled by | David Herbert |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1960 |
| Length | 462 pages |
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