"The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see, They live in fredome, everich in his kynd. And I a man, and lakkith lib…"

"Now was there maid fast by the touris wall A gardyn fair, and in the corneris set Ane herber grene with wandis long a…"

"Worschippe, ye that loveris bene this May, For of your blisse the kalendis are begonne, And sing with us, “away, wint…"

"And therewith kest I doun myn eye ageyne, Quhare as I sawe, walking under the tour, Full secretly new cummyn hir to p…"

"So ferr I fallyng into lufis dance, That sodeynly my wit, my contenance, My hert, my will, my nature and my mynd, Was…"

"The cristall water ran so clere and cold, That in myn ere maid contynualy A maner soun, mellit with armony, That full…"

"Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mar…"

"O to be like my Lord! Yet must I be Mine own self too, And to the nature He bestowed on me Be frankly true.The olive …"

"There is a sort of republican plainness and simplicity in their address, quite in harmony with the institutions of th…"

"The devout and politically free inhabitant of New England is a kind of Laocoön who makes not the least effort to esca…"