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Page 11
... mind it brocht The sweit visage and amorous blenking Or fair Cresseid , sumtime his awin * darling . Na wonder was , suppois in mind that he Tuik hir figure sa sone , and lo now quhy ! The idole * of ane thing in cace * may be Sa deip ...
... mind it brocht The sweit visage and amorous blenking Or fair Cresseid , sumtime his awin * darling . Na wonder was , suppois in mind that he Tuik hir figure sa sone , and lo now quhy ! The idole * of ane thing in cace * may be Sa deip ...
Page 116
... mind disdained so mean a fate ; That passed , his next endeavour was to hate . But vainer that relief than all the rest , The less he hoped , with more desire possessed ; Love stood the siege and would not yield his breast . Change was ...
... mind disdained so mean a fate ; That passed , his next endeavour was to hate . But vainer that relief than all the rest , The less he hoped , with more desire possessed ; Love stood the siege and would not yield his breast . Change was ...
Page 124
... mind . Nor Theodore encouraged more his feast , But sternly looked , as hatching in his breast Some deep design , which when Honoria viewed , The fresh impulse her former fright renewed . She thought herself the trembling dame who fled ...
... mind . Nor Theodore encouraged more his feast , But sternly looked , as hatching in his breast Some deep design , which when Honoria viewed , The fresh impulse her former fright renewed . She thought herself the trembling dame who fled ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400 | 1 |
ROBERT HENRYSON c 14301506 | 7 |
ANONYMOUS | 15 |
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