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And the maiden that departeth the battayle without wounde, thei holde her for no maide.
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Thei wounde not their Sacrifice in no maner of wise: but smore31 hym by stopping the breath.
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Then hee tooke a sworde of a cubite and a spanne long, (I did not mete it my selfe) and put it into his bellie halfeway and sometime lesse, but no wounde was to bee seene, (they continuing in their sweete song still).
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Which faire Nymph laye sleeping vppon a folded cloth, lap, and wounde vp vnder her head.
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Oh delycate and heauenly Damosell, whatsoeuer thou art, thy forcyble loue hath set me on fire, and consumeth my grieued heart; I finde my selfe all ouer, burning in an vncessant flame, and a sharpe dart cast into the middest of my breast, where it sticketh fast, hauing made a mortall wounde vncurable.
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If the hande which ought to helpe me, be the very same that doth giue me the wounde, where shall the hope bee of my recouerie?
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For the one was free of wounde or hurte: cruell and fierce by reason of double victorie, the other faint for losse of bloud, and wearie of running, and who with panting breath, discomfited for his brethrens slaughter, slaine before him, is now obiected to fight with his victorious enemy.
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_Dydo_, with the Purple flowre for the wounde of _Pius Æneas_: And finding my heart strooken and inwardly pricking, secretly filled and compressiuely stuft; recording and gathering together into it, varyable thoughts and working of Loue, my immedicable wounde grewe greater and greater.
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Wherewithall I plucked out of his foote a stubbe, which stucke betweene the pawes thereof, and taking a litle salue, which I had in my bosome, I thrust it into the bottome of the wounde, and diligently without any further feare, I dryed vp the wound, and wiped away the bloud thereof: wherewith the lion being eased, resting his foote in my handes, he laye downe to refreshe him selfe.
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Thrughe our Yngglyshe archery gave many a wounde fulle wyde;
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