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... grace , into a work of such pleasantry and hu- ( ( mour ; it being , perhaps , one of the most learned com- positions that is to be found in any language . The " advantage which the royal cause received from this " Poem , in exposing ...
... grace , into a work of such pleasantry and hu- ( ( mour ; it being , perhaps , one of the most learned com- positions that is to be found in any language . The " advantage which the royal cause received from this " Poem , in exposing ...
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... grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile , A sudden view it would beguile : The upper part thereof was whey , The nether orange mix'd with grey . This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of ...
... grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile , A sudden view it would beguile : The upper part thereof was whey , The nether orange mix'd with grey . This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of ...
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... dispose , To special friends , the knot of noose ; For ' tis great grace , when statesmen strait Dispatch a friend , let others wait . VOL . I. D 95 100 105 110 115 His warped ear hung o'er the strings , Which was 33.
... dispose , To special friends , the knot of noose ; For ' tis great grace , when statesmen strait Dispatch a friend , let others wait . VOL . I. D 95 100 105 110 115 His warped ear hung o'er the strings , Which was 33.
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... have been the mistress Of Gundibert ; but he had grace , 395 And rather took a country - lass : They say ' tis false without all sense , But of pernicious consequence To government , which they suppose Can never be upheld 47.
... have been the mistress Of Gundibert ; but he had grace , 395 And rather took a country - lass : They say ' tis false without all sense , But of pernicious consequence To government , which they suppose Can never be upheld 47.
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... grace By law of arms in such a case ; Both which I now do offer freely . I scorn , quoth she , thou coxcomb silly , ( Clapping her hand upon her breech , To shew how much she priz'd his speech , ) Quarter , or counsel from a foe : If ...
... grace By law of arms in such a case ; Both which I now do offer freely . I scorn , quoth she , thou coxcomb silly , ( Clapping her hand upon her breech , To shew how much she priz'd his speech , ) Quarter , or counsel from a foe : If ...
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Page 80 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 154 - Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Page 85 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 78 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 9 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 183 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 164 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 84 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 220 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 255 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks ! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall...