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InHabite as anHarmet | unHoly of werkes, WentWyde in thys world |Wonders to heare, &c." So that the author of this poem will ...

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The subject of this piece is a vision, wherein the poet sees a contest for superiority between "our lady Dame LIFE," and the "ug ...

particularly from the pains he takes to wipe off a stain from the Cheshire-men, who it seems ran away in that battle, and from h ...

After all, the old alliterative and anapestic metre of the English poets, being chiefly used in a barbarous age and in a rude un ...

Since the foregoing Essay was first printed, the Editor hath met with some additional examples of the old alliterative metre. Th ...

The author pretends to overhear three gossips sitting in an arbour, and revealing all their secret methods of alluring and gover ...

NOTES Literatura Runica. Hafniæ, 1636, 4to.--1651, fol. The Islandic language is of the same origin as our Anglo-Saxon, being b ...

Robert of Gloucester wrote in the western dialect, and his language differs exceedingly from that of other contemporary writers, ...

I. The Complaint of Conscience. ............................................................................... The following so ...

"He brought with him three, whose names thus they call That is Covetousnes, Lecherye, Usury, beside: They never prevail'd, till ...

And we were right glad when thou didst refuse us; For when we wold reape profitt here thou woldst accuse us.' "Then had I noe wa ...

II. Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance. .......................................................................... This excellent o ...

When he accus'd their crimes: 'Twas merry, sayd the people, And joyfull in our realme, When we did offer spice-cakes Unto the qu ...

Were not our fathers wise men, And they did like it well; Who very much rejoyced To heare the zacring bell?" TRUTH "But many kin ...

Met an untimely death; The other eke for treason Did end her hateful breath." IGNORANCE "Yea, yea, it is no matter, Dispraise th ...

III. The Wandering Jew. ............................................................................................ The story o ...

Yet not one gentle heart was there, That pityed this his wrong. Both old and young reviled him, As in the streete he wente, And ...

He wandred thence with woe, Our Saviours wordes, which he had spoke, To verifie and showe. "I'll rest," sayd hee, "but thou shal ...

Which he, for Jesus' sake, Will kindlye give unto the poore, And thereof make no spare, Affirming still that Jesus Christ Of him ...