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Page 354 - Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Page 295 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
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Page 167 - ... the Holy Citee of Jerusalem, and the holy Places that are thereaboute. And I schalle telle the Weye, that thei schulle holden thidre. For I have often tymes passed and ryden the way, with gode Companye of many Lordes : God be thonked.
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Page 166 - Covetyse and Envye han so enflawmed the Hertes of Lordes of the World, that thei are more besy for to disherite here Neyghbores, more than for to chalenge or to conquere here righte Heritage before seyd. And the comoun Peple, that wolde putte here Bodyes and here Catelle, for to conquere oure Heritage, thei may not don it withouten the Lordes. For a semblee of Peple withouten a Cheventeyn, or a chief Lord, is as a Flock of Scheep withouten a Schepperde; the which departeth and desparpleth, and wyten...
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| Title | Specimens of Early English: A New Edition, Revised for Third Time with Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial Index Clarendon Press series Part 2 of Specimens of Early English, Walter William Skeat Specimens of Early English: A New Edition, Revised for Third Time with Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial Index, Walter William Skeat |
| Author | Richard Morris |
| Editors | Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
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