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IV. The Lye. BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH. ............................................................ This poem is found in a very sc ...

And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lye. Tell age, it daily wasteth; Tell honour, how it alters: Tell beauty, how sh ...

Catalogue of T. Rawlinson, 1727. Catalogue of Sian College Library. This is either lost or mislaid. ...

V. Verses by King James I......................................................................................... In the first ...

Curs'd be that love and mought[4] continue short Which kills all creatures, and doth spoil our sport. NOTES See a folio intitl ...

VI. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.............................................................. The common popular balla ...

"Secondlye, tell me, without any doubt, How soone I may ride the whole world about. And at the third question thou must not shri ...

"Now welcome, sire abbott," the king he did say, "'Tis well thou'rt come back to keep thy day; For and if thou canst answer my q ...

VII. You Meaner Beauties. ........................................................................................ This little s ...

VIII. The Old and Young Courtier. ........................................................................... This excellent old ...

Like a flourishing young gallant, newly come to his land, Who keeps a brace of painted madams at his command, And takes up a tho ...

IX. Sir John Suckling's Campaigne. .......................................................................... When the Scottish ...

But when there were shows of gunning and blows, My gallant was nothing so pert-a. For when the Scots army came within sight, And ...

X. To Althea From Prison.......................................................................................... This excellen ...

NOTES Thames is here used for water in general. ...

XI. The Downfall of Charing Cross........................................................................... Charing-cross, as i ...

The committee said, that verily To popery it was bent; For ought I know, it might be so, For to church it never went. What with ...

XII. Loyalty Confined................................................................................................ This excel ...

Here sin for want of food must starve, Where tempting objects are not seen; And these strong walls do only serve To keep vice ou ...

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