The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . t\ « > i. From oiFa hill whose concave womb re-wordedA plaintful story from a sistering vale,My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,And down I laid^ to hst the sad-tund tale:Ere long espied a fickle maid fuU pale,Tearing of papers, breaking rings her world with sorrows wind and rain. Upon her head a platted hive of straw,Which fortified her visage from the sun,Whereon the thought might think sometime it sawThe carcase of a beauty spent and had not scythed all that youth youth all quit; but, spite
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . t\ « > i. From oiFa hill whose concave womb re-wordedA plaintful story from a sistering vale,My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,And down I laid^ to hst the sad-tund tale:Ere long espied a fickle maid fuU pale,Tearing of papers, breaking rings her world with sorrows wind and rain. Upon her head a platted hive of straw,Which fortified her visage from the sun,Whereon the thought might think sometime it sawThe carcase of a beauty spent and had not scythed all that youth youth all quit; but, spite of Heavens fell beauty peepd through lattice of seard age. * Re-worded—echoed. b Laid. So the original. But it is usually more correctlyprinted lay. The idiomatic grammar of Shaksperes ageought not to be remoTed. Oft did she heave her napkin^ to her eyne,Which on it had conceited characters,Laundring*^ the silken figures in the brineThat seasond woe had pelleted in often reading what contents it bears;As often shrieking undistinguishd
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