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Page 305 - there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it...
Page 304 - Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand : For hot, cold, moist and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery...
Page 370 - Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.
Page 350 - Insino a qui l' un giogo di Parnaso Assai mi fu, ma or con ambedue M' è uopo entrar nell' aringo rimaso. Entra nel petto mio, e spira tue Si come quando Marsia traesti Della vagina delle membra sue.
Page 210 - For whiche unto your mercy thus I crye: Beth hevy ageyn, or elles mot I dye!
Page 193 - Stryve noght, as doth the crokke with the wal. Daunte thy-self, that dauntest otheres dede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede.
Page 196 - Bequethe his heir his vertuous noblesse That is appropred unto no degree, But to the firste fader in magestee, That maketh him his heir, that can him queme, Al were he mytre, croune, or diademe.
Page 367 - Fame of them the world hath none, Nor suffers; Mercy and Justice scorn them both. Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by.
Page ix - To serve yow, in prcysing of your name. He made the book that hight the Hous of Fame, And eke the Deeth of Blaunche the Duchesse, And the Parlement of Foules, as I gesse, And al the love of Palamon and Arcite 420 Of Thebes, thogh the storye ys knowen lyte; And many an ympne for your halydayes, That highten balades, roundels, virelayes...
Page 332 - Cf. also the descent of the angel in Purg. ii. 17-24. 504-7. The omission of these lines in F. and B. is simply due to the scribe slipping from bright in 1. 503 to brighte in 1. 507. Cf. note to 1. 280.