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A Riddle: On A Kiss William Strode	The giver hee hath nothing lesse in store: And given once that nature hath it still, You cannot keepe or leave it if you will:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ad Lesbiam, Cat. Ep. 73 Richard Lovelace	Me to love more, yet wish thee well much...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegie. On The Death Of Mrs. Cassandra Cotton, Only Sist Richard Lovelace	When you lose trifles, or what's lesse, your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegie. On The Death Of Mrs. Cassandra Cotton, Only Sister To Mr. C. Cotton. Richard Lovelace	When you lose trifles, or what's lesse, your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegie. Princesse Katherine Borne, Christened, Buried, I Richard Lovelace	As gods on earth are lesse then saints in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegie. Princesse Katherine Borne, Christened, Buried, In One Day Richard Lovelace	As gods on earth are lesse then saints in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Hymne of Heavenly Love Edmund Spenser	he raignd, before all time prescribed, In endlesse glorie and immortall might, Together with that Third from them derived, Most wise, most holy,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Confessio Amantis. Explicit Liber Quintus John Gower	What reson is, or more or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Confessio Amantis. Explicit Liber Tercius John Gower	And riht so nowther mor ne lesse It stant of love and of lachesce: Som time he slowtheth in a day That he nevere after gete...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cumnor Hall William Mickle	ceiv'd, When happye in my father's halle; No faithlesse husbande then me griev'd, No chilling feares did mee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Excerpt from Speke, Parrot John Skelton	So many thevys hangyd, and thevys never the lesse ; So myche prisonment ffor matyrs not worthe an hawe ;* So myche papers weryng for ryghte...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fortune Geoffrey Chaucer	The see may ebbe and flowen more or lesse; The welkne hath might to shyne, reyne, or hayle; Right so mot I kythen my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie Edmund Spenser	The bit of balefull steele and bitter stownd, No lesse then that, which Vulcane made to sheild Achilles life from fate of Troyan...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On A Gentlewoman That Sung And Play'd Upon A Lute William Strode	To keep lesse noise at Nile, if there she sing, Or with a happy touch grace but the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On A Gentlewoman's Blistred Lipp William Strode	Doth any judge that face lesse fayre Whose tender silke a mole doth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Dr. Brown's Death Thomas Parnell	sure this world was lesse...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of Dr. Lancton President Of Maudlin College William Strode	Death hath not made his earthly share the lesse, Or quite bereft him of his honors here, But added more; for liveing hee did steere The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of Ladie Caesar William Strode	greedy Death, Hath stopt the organ of such harmlesse breath, May it bee knowne by a more hatefull name Then now the Plague: and for to quell the same...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of Sir Thomas Lea William Strode	Vex the grume porter's surly conscience: That blesse the mint for coyning lesse than pence: You whose unknown and meanly payd desarts Begge...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oreheus To Beasts Richard Lovelace	The gods knew lesse That time divinitie, Then ev'n, ev'n these Of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Providence George Herbert	have their net: The great prey on the lesse, they on some...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Satire II John Donne	Are Fathers of the Church for writing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Appology Anne Kingsmill Finch	sse; mind [sic] indeed Is still to write tho' hopelesse to succeed Nor to the Men is this so easy found Ev'n in most Works with which the Witts abound...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Canterbury Tales; THE PERSOUNS TALE Geoffrey Chaucer	For ellevene foot, or litel moore or lesse, My shadwe was at thilke tyme as there, Of swiche feet as my lengthe parted were In sixe...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Canterbury Tales; THE PHISICIENS TALE Geoffrey Chaucer	She spak, and alle hir wordes, moore and lesse, Sownynge in vertu and in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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