A creature is that humane flesh deuoures, From out whose bowels fatnesse may be taken,
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Who sekes to tame the blustering winde, Or causse the floods bend to his wyll,
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Of on that is so fayr and bright
\Velut maris stella,\
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Marke well my heavy, dolefull tale, You loyall lovers all,
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Trolle on away, trolle on awaye, Synge heave and howe rombelowe trolle on away.
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Part the First. Henry, our royall kind, would ride a hunting
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GIVE place, you ladies, and begone!
Boast not yourselves at all!
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A Robyn, Jolly Robyn,
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Christmas is my name, for have I gone, have I gone, have I gone,
Have I gone without regard;
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Part the First Mery it was in the grene forest
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Adam lay ibounden,
Bounden in a bond.
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Bytuene Mershe and Averil
When spray biginneth to springe,
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Ye moderne Lawreats famousd for your writ, VVho for your pregnance may in Delos dwelt,
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Mary Wryte and her mother Her father ande brother--
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Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell,
Tydyng' gode y thyngke to telle
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Sweet appletree, your branches delight me,
Luxuriantly budding my pride and joy!
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As ye came from the holy land
Of Walsinghame,
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Lord that is off myghtys most, Fadyr and Sone and Holy Gost,
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Master Geffray Chauser, that now lyth in grave, The nobyll rethoricien, and poet of Gret Bretayne,
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BALOW, my babe, lie still and sleep!
It grieves me sore to see thee weep.
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Beleeue me now I tell it for no tale, There is a Queene, or else a Goddesse t'one,
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LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
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Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,
leader beloved, and long he ruled
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WENT he forth to find at fall of night
that haughty house, and heed wherever
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THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdene
with the woe of these days; not wisest men
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To him the stateliest spake in answer;
the warriors' leader his word-hoard unlocked: --
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STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the way
to the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistened
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HROTHGAR answered, helmet of Scyldings: --
"I knew him of yore in his youthful days;
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HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings'-helmet: --
"For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf,
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UNFERTH spake, the son of Ecglaf,
who sat at the feet of the Scyldings' lord,
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