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" The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs, The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale; The adder all her slough away she... "
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 - 1904 - 466 pages
...see | among these pleasant things Each care decays, | and yet my sorrow springs. The swift swallow | pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee | her honey now she mings ; 4. Not the least important of Surrey's improvements was his rejection of weak syllables for the purposes...
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The Age of Transition, 1400-1580: The poets

Frederick John Snell - English literature - 1905 - 248 pages
...The fishes fleet 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...
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Choice of Choices [poems]

Poetry of places - 1905 - 274 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 flower's bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet...
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The Age of Transition, 1400-1580: The poets

Frederick John Snell - English literature - 1905 - 248 pages
...The fishes fleet 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 ;...
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The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1907 - 892 pages
...The fishes flste 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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English Poems

Edward Chauncey Baldwin, Harry Gilbert Paul - English poetry - 1908 - 428 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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A Study of English Rhyme

Charles Francis Richardson - English language - 1909 - 236 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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The Treasure Book of Verse: Being a Reissue of Poetry for Home and School

Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1909 - 374 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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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 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 is worn, that was the flowers' bale: And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and...
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Lyrical Forms in English

Norman Hepple - English poetry - 1911 - 306 pages
...fishes float with new .repaired scale; IA The adder all her slough away she slings; A. 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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