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The Life and Times of Alfred the Great

Note 886 — LECTURE VI LITERARY WORKS (continued); SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

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c. xxxiv. § 8; cf. Spenser’s musical lines:

‘Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.’ Faerie Queene, I. ix. 40; cf. II. xii. 32.

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