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								Meroe, was in time past the heade citie of the kyngdome, whiche stondeth in an Isle of the same name facioned like a shielde, stretching it self thre thousand furlong alongest by 
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								Throwynge onne hys wyde backe, hys wyder spreddynge shielde. The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton 
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								_Tansie_, _Colocassia_, with leaues like a shielde, and garden hearbes. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna 
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								Vppon the other side was chased out a valiant youth, who with great reuerence did receiue a protection of a Christall shielde, and with his sworde afterward cutting off the heade of a terryble woman, and afterwardes proudly bearing her heade in signe of victorie; Out of the hotte blood of whome, did rise vp a flying horse: who striking vppon a Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna 
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								Ah! swythenn [34] mie shielde & tyltynge launce bee bounde [35]. The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton 
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								Armoure on armoure dynn [71], shielde upon shielde; The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton 
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								When the dyre clatterynge of the shielde and launce The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton 
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								Onn mie longe shielde ycorne thie name thoul't fynde. The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton 
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								Eftsoones [46] hys squyer, with hys shielde and spere. The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton 
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								I wylle anente [85] hymm goe; mie squierr, mie shielde; 95 The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton 
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