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... leave us never an understanding friend . Therefore , for goodness ' sake , and as you are known The first and happiest hearers of the town , Be sad , as we would make ye : think ye see The very persons of our noble story As they were ...
... leave us never an understanding friend . Therefore , for goodness ' sake , and as you are known The first and happiest hearers of the town , Be sad , as we would make ye : think ye see The very persons of our noble story As they were ...
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... leave your honour nor The dignity of your office , is the point Of my petition . King . Lady mine , proceed . Q. Kath . I am solicited , not by a few , And those of true condition , that your subjects Are in great grievance : there have ...
... leave your honour nor The dignity of your office , is the point Of my petition . King . Lady mine , proceed . Q. Kath . I am solicited , not by a few , And those of true condition , that your subjects Are in great grievance : there have ...
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... leave it with a root , thus hack'd , The air will drink the sap . To every county Where this is question'd send our letters , with Free pardon to each man that has denied The force of this commission : pray , look to ' t ; I put it to ...
... leave it with a root , thus hack'd , The air will drink the sap . To every county Where this is question'd send our letters , with Free pardon to each man that has denied The force of this commission : pray , look to ' t ; I put it to ...
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... leave those remnants Of fool and feather that they got in France , With all their honourable points of ignorance Pertaining thereunto , as fights and fireworks , Abusing better men than they can be Out of a foreign wisdom , renouncing ...
... leave those remnants Of fool and feather that they got in France , With all their honourable points of ignorance Pertaining thereunto , as fights and fireworks , Abusing better men than they can be Out of a foreign wisdom , renouncing ...
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... leave , sweet ladies : If I chance to talk a little wild , forgive me ; I had it from my father . Anne . Was he mad , sir ? Sands . O , very mad , exceeding mad , in love too : But he would bite none ; just as I do now , He would kiss ...
... leave , sweet ladies : If I chance to talk a little wild , forgive me ; I had it from my father . Anne . Was he mad , sir ? Sands . O , very mad , exceeding mad , in love too : But he would bite none ; just as I do now , He would kiss ...
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Page 53 - This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Page 38 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 55 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by 't ? Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues : be just, and fear not.
Page 61 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 52 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all. my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls as I do.
Page 38 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Page 60 - O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity...
Page 54 - Long in his highness' favour, and do justice For truth's sake and his conscience; that his bones, When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans
Page 55 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 79 - Nor shall this peace sleep with her : but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new create another heir As great in admiration as herself : So shall she leave her blessedness to one, When Heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness.