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A Metrical History of England

Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin
Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841)

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VOL. I.
  
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INTRODUCTION.
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PART THE FIRST.
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PART THE THIRD.
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PART THE FOURTH.
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PART THE FIFTH.
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EDWARD THE THIRD.
  
Eating.
  
Drinking.
  
Spices.
  
Dress of an Archer.
  
Spring.
  
Hunger.
  
[And as the new abashed nightingale]
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PART THE SIXTH.
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VOL. II.

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Spring.

“This was in midst of month of May,
“When birdis sing on ilka spray,
“Melland their notes with seemly soun,
“For softness of the sweet seasoun.
“And leaves of the branches spreeds,
“And bloomis bright, beside them, breeds,
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“And fieldis strawed are with flowers,
“Well favouring of seir colours.”
John Barbour.
 

Mingling.

Their.

Born at Aberdeen, but who, after he was an Archdeacon, obtained a licence from Edward III. to study at Oxford.

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