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With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red: Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled.
With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red: Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled.
Approximate author period: c. 1583 AD · renaissance
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- William Warner
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- Approximate author period: c. 1583 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Albion's England. Book viii. chap. xli. stanza 53.
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