Seventeenth-century Verse and ProseMacmillan, 1959 |
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Page 186
... drest In beauties livery , and quaint devise : Thus she bewitches many a boy unblest , Who drench't in hell , dreames all of Paradise : Her brests his spheares , her armes his circling skie ; Her pleasures heav'n , her love eternitie ...
... drest In beauties livery , and quaint devise : Thus she bewitches many a boy unblest , Who drench't in hell , dreames all of Paradise : Her brests his spheares , her armes his circling skie ; Her pleasures heav'n , her love eternitie ...
Page 239
... drest , Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the Birds have Mattens seyd , And sung their thankfull Hymnes : ' tis sin , Nay , profanation to keep in , When as a thousand Virgins on this day , Spring , sooner then the Lark , to ...
... drest , Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the Birds have Mattens seyd , And sung their thankfull Hymnes : ' tis sin , Nay , profanation to keep in , When as a thousand Virgins on this day , Spring , sooner then the Lark , to ...
Page 245
... Drest up with all the Country Art . See , here a Maukin , there a sheet , As spotlesse pure , as it is sweet : The Horses , Mares , and frisking Fillies , ( Clad , all , in Linnen , white as Lillies . ) The Harvest Swaines , and Wenches ...
... Drest up with all the Country Art . See , here a Maukin , there a sheet , As spotlesse pure , as it is sweet : The Horses , Mares , and frisking Fillies , ( Clad , all , in Linnen , white as Lillies . ) The Harvest Swaines , and Wenches ...
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The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
Lancelot Andrewes | 33 |
John Donne | 71 |
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