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A metrical history of England; or, Recollections, in rhyme of some ... - Page 65
by Thomas John Dibdin - 1813
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 2

William John Courthope - English poetry - 1897 - 478 pages
...flete | with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough | away she flings ; The swift swall6w | pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee | her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn | that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, | and...
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English Sonnets

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sonnets, English - 1897 - 258 pages
...fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1, Part 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1897 - 268 pages
...fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough away she slings; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Whiter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays,...
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Gems of Genius in Poetry and Art: From the Kings and Queens of Thought : and ...

Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...fishes fleet, with new repaired scale; The adder all her slough away she flings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale ; And thus I see among these pleasant things, Each care decays, and...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 1

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1899 - 626 pages
...fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings 2 ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care...
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A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - American literature - 1900 - 596 pages
...fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough away she flings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...with new repaired scale. )<). make] mate. The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet...
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History of English Literature: From the fourteenth century to the death of ...

Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink - English literature - 1902 - 344 pages
...fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough away she flings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale, And thus I see among these pleasant things, Each care decays, and...
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Introduction. The Elizabethan writers

Sidney Lanier - English poetry - 1902 - 444 pages
...buck in brake his winter coat he slings ; The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale : And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1904 - 484 pages
...The fishes flete with new repaired scale; The adder all her slough away she slings; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter ia worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and...
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