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I have followed the same practice with the ballads wherever the text used is an early one , and I have to some extent regularized the spelling in Robin Hode and the Munke . But in the hundred and fifty years between the death of Chaucer ...
I have followed the same practice with the ballads wherever the text used is an early one , and I have to some extent regularized the spelling in Robin Hode and the Munke . But in the hundred and fifty years between the death of Chaucer ...
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A Spirit had And some in dreams assured were followed them ; cne of Of the Spirit that plagued us so ; the invisible inhabitants of Nine fathom deep he had followed us this planet , From the land of mist and snow . neither departed ...
A Spirit had And some in dreams assured were followed them ; cne of Of the Spirit that plagued us so ; the invisible inhabitants of Nine fathom deep he had followed us this planet , From the land of mist and snow . neither departed ...
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Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken , Sicu - Doubtless , ' said I , ' what it utters is its only stock and store , Caught from some unhappy master , whon unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster ...
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken , Sicu - Doubtless , ' said I , ' what it utters is its only stock and store , Caught from some unhappy master , whon unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster ...
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