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Thus thou can'st tearcely live to satisfie The belly chiefly ; not the eye : Keeping the barking stomach wisely quiet ... the Centinell doth keep ) With those deeds done by day , which n'er affright Thy silken slumbers in the night .
Thus thou can'st tearcely live to satisfie The belly chiefly ; not the eye : Keeping the barking stomach wisely quiet ... the Centinell doth keep ) With those deeds done by day , which n'er affright Thy silken slumbers in the night .
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Dearest of thousands , now the time drawes A Hen neere , I keep , which creeking day by day , That with my Lines , my Life must fullTells when She goes her long white egg to lay . Cut off thy haires ; and let thy Teares be A Goose shed ...
Dearest of thousands , now the time drawes A Hen neere , I keep , which creeking day by day , That with my Lines , my Life must fullTells when She goes her long white egg to lay . Cut off thy haires ; and let thy Teares be A Goose shed ...
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But these chaste fountains flow not till we dye ; Some drops may fall before , but a clear spring And ever running , till we leave to fling Dirt in her way , will keep above the skie . Rom . Chap . 6. ver . 7 He that is dead , is freed ...
But these chaste fountains flow not till we dye ; Some drops may fall before , but a clear spring And ever running , till we leave to fling Dirt in her way , will keep above the skie . Rom . Chap . 6. ver . 7 He that is dead , is freed ...
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The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1959 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2018 |
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