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"Thenne welcome dethe! for lyfe eterne I leave thys mortall lyfe: Farewell, vayne world, and alle that's deare,

Mye sonnes and lovynge wyfe!

"Nowe dethe as welcome to mee comes, 205
As e'er the moneth of Maie;
Nor woulde I even wyshe to lyve,
Wyth my dere wyfe to staie."

Quod Canynge, ""Tys a goodlie thynge
To bee prepared to die;

And from thys world of peyne and grefe To Godde ynne Heav'n to flie."

And nowe the belle began to tolle,

And claryonnes to sound;

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"Teache them to runne the nobile race
Thatt I theyre fader runne;
Florence! shou'd dethe thee take adieu!
Yee officers, leade onne."

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A dreery spectacle;

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Hys hedde was placed onne the hyghe Heere, uponne mie true loves grave,

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Schalle the baren fleurs be laydę, Nee one hallie Seyncte to save Al the celness of a mayde.

Mie love ys dedde,

Gonne to hys death-bedde,
Alle under the wyllowe tree.

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Though pinched with cold, asks never.Kate is crazed.

I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung 560 Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race!

They pick their fuel out of every hedge, 565 Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquenched

The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide

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To conjure clean away the gold they touch, Conveying worthless dross into its place; Loud when they beg, dumb only when they steal.

Strange! that a creature rational, and cast In human mould, should brutalize by choice 575

His nature, and, though capable of arts By which the world might profit and himself,

Self-banished from society, prefer
Such squalid sloth to honorable toil!
Yet even these, though, feigning sickness
oft,

580 They swathe the forehead, drag the limping limb,

And vex their flesh with artificial sores, Can change their whine into a mirthful

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