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Comfort weel your seven sons , For comforted will I never be : I ween ' twas neither knave nor loon Was in the bower last night wi ' me . ' PART II [ A version of Sweet William's Ghost ] The clinking bell gaed thro ' the toun , To carry ...
Comfort weel your seven sons , For comforted will I never be : I ween ' twas neither knave nor loon Was in the bower last night wi ' me . ' PART II [ A version of Sweet William's Ghost ] The clinking bell gaed thro ' the toun , To carry ...
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Haidée spoke not of scruples , asked no vows , Nor offered any ; she had never heard Of plight and promises to be a spouse , Or perils by a loving maid incurred ; She was all which pure ignorance allows , And flew to her young mate like ...
Haidée spoke not of scruples , asked no vows , Nor offered any ; she had never heard Of plight and promises to be a spouse , Or perils by a loving maid incurred ; She was all which pure ignorance allows , And flew to her young mate like ...
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Gilbert So he boils the water , and takes the salt And the pepper in portions true ( Which he never forgot ) , and some chopped shallot , And some sage and parsley too . Come here , ” says he , with a proper pride , Which his smiling ...
Gilbert So he boils the water , and takes the salt And the pepper in portions true ( Which he never forgot ) , and some chopped shallot , And some sage and parsley too . Come here , ” says he , with a proper pride , Which his smiling ...
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Contents
I | 1 |
John SKBLTON c 14601529 | 12 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 15541586 | 56 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Penguin Book of Narrative Verse Part 49 of The Penguin poets |
| Editor | David Herbert |
| Publisher | Middlesex, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Feb 2005 |
| Length | 462 pages |
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