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Consider (friendly reader) how Munster is delighted to harpe vpon one string, that when he can write nothing of an vnknowen nation which may cary any shew with it, he is faine either to bring in falshood, or often to repeat the same things, and so to become tedious vnto his reader: for he sayd a little before, that the

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Will you coniure, & raise vp vnto vs from death to life old, Orpheus conferring with his wife Euridice (drawen backe againe down to the Stigian flood) & in these parts of the world, as it were by the bankes of snowey Tanais, & Hebrus descanting vpon his harpe?

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Will you coniure, & raise vp vnto vs from death to life old, Orpheus conferring with his wife Euridice (drawen backe againe down to the Stigian flood) & in these parts of the world, as it were by the bankes of snowey Tanais, & Hebrus descanting vpon his harpe?

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Consider (friendly reader) how Munster is delighted to harpe vpon one string, that when he can write nothing of an vnknowen nation which may cary any shew with it, he is faine either to bring in falshood, or often to repeat the same things, and so to become tedious vnto his reader: for he sayd a little before, that the

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Current Music: Claude Debussy, "Sonate pour flûte, alto et harpe"

December Realms of Fantasy available now shunn 2003

Here we wel refreshed our selues whilest the Irish harpe sounded sweetely in our eares, and here we, who for the former extremities were in maner halfe dead, had our liues (as it were) restored vnto vs againe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The piphinx, the harpe, and the kite are friends; as are the fox and the snake, for both burrow underground; so also are the blackbird and the turtle-dove.

The History of Animals 2002

In like manner there is war between birds that get their living from the sea, as between the brenthus, the gull, and the harpe; and so between the buzzard on one side and the toad and snake on the other, for the buzzard preys upon the eggs of the two others; and so between the turtle-dove and the chloreus; the chloreus kills the dove, and the crow kills the so-called drummer-bird.

The History of Animals 2002

Bet þuhte þe drem. þat he were. of harpe· ⁊ pipe· þan he nere.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Eurych mureþe may so lo {n} ge leste. þat heo schal liki wel vnwreste. for harpe. ⁊ pipe. ⁊ foweles song.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall