The More Modern Ballad of Chevy Chace (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
God prosper long our noble king,Our liffes and safetyes all;A woefull hunting once there didIn Chevy-Chace befall.To drive the deere ...
God prosper long our noble king,Our liffes and safetyes all;A woefull hunting once there didIn Chevy-Chace befall.To drive the deere ...
Renowned Empresse, and great Britaines Queene,Most gratious Mother of succeeding Kings;Vouchsafe to view that which is seldome seene,A Womans writing ...
Hee that his mirth hath loste, Whose comfort is dismaid,Whose hope is vaine, whose faith is scorned, Whose trust is ...
A pleasant song of the valiant deeds of chivalry atchieved by that noble knight Sir Guy of Warwick, who, for ...
The First PartIn Venice towne not long agoeA cruel Jew did dwell,Which lived all on usurie,As Italian writers tell.Gernutus called ...
When London's fatal bills were blown abroadAnd few but Specters travel'd on the road,Not towns but men in the black ...
When heapes of heauie hap, had fild my harte right full, And sorrow set forth pensiuenes, my ioyes away ...
Januarie: ?gloga Prime. Colin Cloute.A Shepeheards boye (no better doe him call)when Winters wastful spight was almost spent,All in a ...
But may a Rural Pen try to set forthSuch a Great Fathers Ancient Grace and worthI undertake a no less ...
When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines Which ty'd her dear monkey so fast by the loins, Show'd his ...
In court whoso demaundesWhat dame doth most excell;For my conceit I must needes say,Faire Bridges beares the bel. Upon whose ...
O heighth! o Depthe! upon my bended kneesWho dare Expound these Wondrous Mysteries:That this rare plant is cropt before mine ...
Loe I am sent, but vnto whome God knowes:Mine aucthor ment, this message to inclose.Within his chest, as he doth ...
Tagus, farewell! that westward with thy streams Turns up the grains of gold already tried With spur and sail, for ...
Preferment, like a Game at bowles, To feede our hope with diverse play Heer quick it runnes, there soft it ...
OCTOBER: Ægloga DecimaPIERCE & CUDDIE Cuddie, for shame hold up thy heavye head, And let us cast with what delight ...
APRILL: Ægloga QuartaTHENOT & HOBBINOLL Tell me good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What? hath some Wolfe thy tender Lambes ...
When those renoumed noble Peres of Greece, thrugh stubborn pride amongst theselues did iar forgetfull of the famous golden fleece, ...
TRust not the treason of those smyling lookes, vntill ye haue theyr guylefull traynes well tryde: for they are lyke ...
Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old, Then whome a better Senatour nere held The helme of Rome, ...
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