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Page 87
... breath is short ; Youth is nimble , Age is lame ; Youth is hot and bold , Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild , and Age is tame . Age , I do abhor thee ; Youth , I do adore thee ; O , my Love , my Love is young ! Age , I do defy thee ...
... breath is short ; Youth is nimble , Age is lame ; Youth is hot and bold , Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild , and Age is tame . Age , I do abhor thee ; Youth , I do adore thee ; O , my Love , my Love is young ! Age , I do defy thee ...
Page 107
... breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit , that lightly did delay Hot Titans beames , which then did glyster fayre ; When I , ( whom sullein care , Through discontent of my long fruitlesse stay In Princes Court , and ...
... breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit , that lightly did delay Hot Titans beames , which then did glyster fayre ; When I , ( whom sullein care , Through discontent of my long fruitlesse stay In Princes Court , and ...
Page 136
... breath . Then farewell , world ! thy uttermost I see : Eternal Love , maintain thy life in me ! FULKE GREVILLE , LORD BROOKE 96 . Myra 1554-1628 WITH whose colours Myra dress'd her head , I , whose I , that ware posies of her own hand ...
... breath . Then farewell , world ! thy uttermost I see : Eternal Love , maintain thy life in me ! FULKE GREVILLE , LORD BROOKE 96 . Myra 1554-1628 WITH whose colours Myra dress'd her head , I , whose I , that ware posies of her own hand ...
Page 162
... breath , When , his pulse failing , Passion speechless lies , When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death , And Innocence is closing up his eyes , -Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou might'st him ...
... breath , When , his pulse failing , Passion speechless lies , When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death , And Innocence is closing up his eyes , -Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou might'st him ...
Page 176
... breath . Air , quoth he , thy cheeks may blow ; Air , would I might triumph so ! But , alack , my hand is sworn Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn : Vow , alack , for youth unmeet ; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet ! Do not call it sin in ...
... breath . Air , quoth he , thy cheeks may blow ; Air , would I might triumph so ! But , alack , my hand is sworn Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn : Vow , alack , for youth unmeet ; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet ! Do not call it sin in ...
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