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... sing As children lered hir antiphonere : And as he dorst , he drew him nere and nere , And herkened , ay , the wordes and the note , Til he the firste vers coude al by rote . Nought wist he what this Latin was to say , For he so yonge ...
... sing As children lered hir antiphonere : And as he dorst , he drew him nere and nere , And herkened , ay , the wordes and the note , Til he the firste vers coude al by rote . Nought wist he what this Latin was to say , For he so yonge ...
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... sing and crie , " O Alma Redemptoris ! ' ever mo . The swetenesse hath his herte persed so Of Cristes moder ; that to hire to pray , He cannot stint of singing by the way . Our firste fo , the serpent Sathanas , That hath in Jewes herte ...
... sing and crie , " O Alma Redemptoris ! ' ever mo . The swetenesse hath his herte persed so Of Cristes moder ; that to hire to pray , He cannot stint of singing by the way . Our firste fo , the serpent Sathanas , That hath in Jewes herte ...
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... singing Into the middes of the mede , echone , Before the herber where I was sitting . And , God wote , I thought I was well bigone ; For than I might avise hem , one by one , Who fairest was , who best could dance or sing , Or who most ...
... singing Into the middes of the mede , echone , Before the herber where I was sitting . And , God wote , I thought I was well bigone ; For than I might avise hem , one by one , Who fairest was , who best could dance or sing , Or who most ...
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... sing and daunce of new ; Some song of love , some plaining of untrew , Environing the tre that stode upright ; And ever yede a lady and a knight ; And , at the last , I cast mine ere aside , And was ware of a lusty company That came ...
... sing and daunce of new ; Some song of love , some plaining of untrew , Environing the tre that stode upright ; And ever yede a lady and a knight ; And , at the last , I cast mine ere aside , And was ware of a lusty company That came ...
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... singing That it would have comforted any wight . -But then I se a passing wonder sight ; For then the nightingale , that all the day Had in the laurer sate , and did hire might The whole service to sing longing to May ; All sodainly ...
... singing That it would have comforted any wight . -But then I se a passing wonder sight ; For then the nightingale , that all the day Had in the laurer sate , and did hire might The whole service to sing longing to May ; All sodainly ...
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