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" ... alms: But though from court to cottage he depart, His Saint is sure of his unspotted heart. And when he saddest sits in homely cell, He'll teach his swains this carol for a song, — ''Blest be the hearts that wish my sovereign well, Curst be the... "
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth - Page 260
by Lucy Aikin - 1818
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Songs from the British Drama

Edward Bliss Reed - Ballads, English - 1925 - 410 pages
...sure of mine unspotted heart. "And when I sadly sit in homely cell, I'll teach my swains this carol for a song — Blest be the hearts that think my Sovereign well, Curst be the souls that think to do her wrong. Goddess, vouchsafe this aged man his right, To be your...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...hearts that wish my sovereign well, i 5 Cursed be the souls that think her any wrong." Goddess, allow and — GEORGE PEELE (is58?-i597?) THE BURNING BABE As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the...
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Lyrics from the Old Song Books

Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 658 pages
...the hearts that wish my sovereign well, Cursed be the souls that think her any wrong.' Goddess, allow this aged man his right To be your beadsman now that was your knight. From .the First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure parts, 1597, where Peele's verse is set as a madrigal...
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English Verse: The early lyrics to Shakespeare

William Peacock - American poetry - 1928 - 476 pages
...the harts that wish my soueraigne well, Curst be the soule that thinke her any wrong : Goddes allow this aged man his right To be your beadsman now that was your knight. A FAREWELL ENTITULED TO THE FAMOUS AND FORTUNATE GENERALLS OF OUR ENGLISH FORCES : SIR IOHN NORRIS...
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Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts

Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...the hearts that wish my sovereign well, Curst be the souls that think her any wrong.' Goddess, allow this aged man his right, To be your beadsman now that was your knight. Peele. Polyhymnia, 1590. The Shepherd's Wife's Song AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...the hearts that wish my sovereign well, Cursed be the souls that think her any wrong." Goddess, allow this aged man his right, To be your beadsman now that was your knight. ROBERT GREENE (i56o?-i592) MAESIA'S SONG (FROM FAREWELL TO FOLLY) SWEET are the thoughts that savor...
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...heartes that wish my Soveraigne well, Curst be the soules that thinke her any wrong. Goddesse, allow this aged man his right, To be your Beads-man now, that was your Knight. A Lady Lee is buried in the parish church at Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire with this inscription of...
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Reconfiguring the Renaissance: Essays in Critical Materialism

Jonathan V. Crewe - Critical theory - 1992 - 188 pages
...the harts that wish my soueraigne well, Curst be the soules that thinke her any wrong: Goddes, allow this aged man his right, To be your beadsman now, that was your knight.21 . . . These presents and prayer being with great reuerence deliuered into her Maiesties owne...
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Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship

Ilona Bell - History - 1998 - 298 pages
...permission to retire to the country so that he can dedicate the rest of his life to her worship: "Goddesse, vouchsafe this aged man his right, / To be your Beadsman now, that was your Knight." Concealed within Lee's tribute to the queen is a secret message to Anne Vavasour: "Curs'd be the soules...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...true love said, Till that time come again, She could not live a maid. 8606 Polyhymnia Goddess, allow PEGUY Charles 1873-1914 8607 Basic Verities He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth...
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