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"Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day."
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Thomas NasheSpring, the sweet spring, is the years pleasant King, — Thomas Nashe
"Spring, the sweet spring, is the years pleasant King, Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu wee, to witta woo!"
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Thomas Nashe
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Thomas Nashe was an English Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless, and his numerous defences of the Church of England.
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"Blest is that government where no art thrives."
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"The fields breath sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit."
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"What is Logicke but the highe waie to wrangling, contayning in it a world of bibble babble. Neede we anie of your Greeke, Latine, Hebrue, or anie such gibbrige, when wee have the word of God in English?"
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"Evermore mayst thou be canonized as the Nonparreille of impious epistlers."
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"Fair Summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leavst to appear."
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