Great English Writers, Volume 1Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Joseph Morris Thomas F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 A chronological rearrangement, with many additions, of the material included in the editors' Great English poets and Great English prose writers. cf. Pref. |
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... armes , Somme hadden salves and somme hadden charmes , 1860 Fermacies of herbes , and eek save They dronken , for they wolde hir limes have . For which this noble duk , as he wel can , Conforteth and honoureth every man , And made revel ...
... armes , Somme hadden salves and somme hadden charmes , 1860 Fermacies of herbes , and eek save They dronken , for they wolde hir limes have . For which this noble duk , as he wel can , Conforteth and honoureth every man , And made revel ...
Page 177
... armes in field . ' ' Why , dame , ' ( quoth he ) ' what oddes can ever bee , Where both doe fight alike , to win or yield ? ' ' Yea , but , ' ( quoth she ) ' he beares a charmed shield , And eke enchaunted armes , that none can perce ...
... armes in field . ' ' Why , dame , ' ( quoth he ) ' what oddes can ever bee , Where both doe fight alike , to win or yield ? ' ' Yea , but , ' ( quoth she ) ' he beares a charmed shield , And eke enchaunted armes , that none can perce ...
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... armes must I at last be faine And Ladies love to leave , so dearely bought ? ' ' What need of armes , where peace doth ay re- maine , ' ( Said he ) ' and bitter battailes all are fought ? As for loose loves , they are vaine , and vanish ...
... armes must I at last be faine And Ladies love to leave , so dearely bought ? ' ' What need of armes , where peace doth ay re- maine , ' ( Said he ) ' and bitter battailes all are fought ? As for loose loves , they are vaine , and vanish ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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