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The Raynbowe bending in the skye,
Bedeckte with sundrye hewes,
Is lyke the seate of God on hye,
And seemes to tell these newes:
That as thereby he promised,
To drowne the worlde no more,
So by the bloud whiche Christe hath shead,
He will oure health restore.

— George Gascoigne A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573)

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And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,
That every bullet hath a lighting place.

Full many wanton babes have I,
Which must be stilld with lullabie.

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Sing lullabie, as women do,
Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;
And lullabie can I sing to,
As womanly as can the best.

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But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

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