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SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 18. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: More yet and more, and yet we mark not all
Last Line: In the pleached lanes of pleasant edmonton.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets


MORE yet and more, and yet we mark not all:
The Warning fain to bid fair women heed
Its hard brief note of deadly doom and deed;
The verse that strewed too thick with flowers the hall
Whence Nero watched his fiery festival;
That iron page wherein men's eyes who read
See bruised and marred between two babes that bleed,
A mad red-handed husband's martyr fall;
The scene which crossed and streaked with mirth the strife
Of Henry with his sons and witchlike wife;
And that sweet pageant of the kindly fiend,
Who, seeing three friends in spirit and heart made one,
Crowned with good hap the true-love wiles he screened
In the pleached lanes of pleasant Edmonton.





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