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" Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. "
The Poetical Works of Skelton and Donne: With a Memoir of Each .. - Page 227
by John Skelton - 1879
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 23-24

John Bell - 1799 - 402 pages
...times past are, Or who cleft the devil's foot: Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep oft'envy's stinging, And find What wind .Serves to advance an...honest mind. If thou be'st born to strange sights, 10 Things invisible go see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee :...
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...mandrake root, Tell me where all times past are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot ; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee : Thou, when thou return'st, wilt...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 1

George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...impressions. SONG. Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou beest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see ; Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...mandrake root, Tell me where all times past are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find....Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be'st born to s* range sights, Things invisible go see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 pages
...root, Tell me where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the devil's foot; Teach me to heare mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou beest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand dales and nights, Till age...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets,: To which is Prefixed, an Historical ...

George Ellis - 1811 - 472 pages
...impressions. SONG. Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou beest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see ; Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 8

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...star, ***** Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 8

Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...* # * * Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee ; Thou, when thou return's!,...
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Humorous poems by English and American writers

William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 512 pages
...root ; Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot ; Teach me to hear Mermaids singing,— Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. s If thou bcest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights,...
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Englische Metrik in historischer und systematischer Entwickelung dargestellt ...

Jakob Schipper - 1888 - 630 pages
...all times past are, Or who cleft the devil's foot : Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep of envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Die nachstehende Strophe (AABfj'c!>£) eines Liedes von Suckling gehört gleichfalls hierher (Poets...
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