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Page viii
... Squire , This monarch did so much admire ? That he should never reimburse The man for th ' equipage or horse , Is sure a strange , ungrateful thing , In any body but a King . But this good King , it seems , was told , By some that were ...
... Squire , This monarch did so much admire ? That he should never reimburse The man for th ' equipage or horse , Is sure a strange , ungrateful thing , In any body but a King . But this good King , it seems , was told , By some that were ...
Page xiv
... Squire of the English poet is of an opposite character to that of the Spanish Sancho ; for whereas the latter is a plain , un- affected peasant , the English Squire is a tailor by trade , a Tartuff , or finished hypocrite by birth , and ...
... Squire of the English poet is of an opposite character to that of the Spanish Sancho ; for whereas the latter is a plain , un- affected peasant , the English Squire is a tailor by trade , a Tartuff , or finished hypocrite by birth , and ...
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... Squire he had , whose name was Ralph , That in th ' adventure went his half . Though writers , for more stately tone , Do call him Ralpho , ' tis all one : And when we can with metre safe , We'll call him so ; if not , plain Ralph ...
... Squire he had , whose name was Ralph , That in th ' adventure went his half . Though writers , for more stately tone , Do call him Ralpho , ' tis all one : And when we can with metre safe , We'll call him so ; if not , plain Ralph ...
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... Squire , he had , as well As the bold Trojan knight , seen hell , Not with a counterfeited pass Of golden bough , but true gold lace . His knowledge was not far behind 465 470 475 The Knight's , but of another kind , 480 And he another ...
... Squire , he had , as well As the bold Trojan knight , seen hell , Not with a counterfeited pass Of golden bough , but true gold lace . His knowledge was not far behind 465 470 475 The Knight's , but of another kind , 480 And he another ...
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... squire with knight , 625 Or knight with squire , e'er jump more right . Their arms and equipage did fit , As well as virtues , parts , and wit . Their valours too were of a rate , And out they sally'd at the gate . 1 Few miles on ...
... squire with knight , 625 Or knight with squire , e'er jump more right . Their arms and equipage did fit , As well as virtues , parts , and wit . Their valours too were of a rate , And out they sally'd at the gate . 1 Few miles on ...
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Page 424 - All this ! ay, more : fret till your proud heart break ; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge ? Must I observe you ? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour ? By the gods, You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you...
Page 5 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Page 347 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 10 - A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies, In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick...
Page 22 - Still they are sure to be i' th' right. 'Tis a dark-lanthorn of the spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high, For spiritual trades to cozen by ; An ignis fatuus that bewitches And leads men into pools and ditches, To make them dip themselves, and sound For Christendom in dirty pond ; To dive, like wild-fowl, for salvation, And fish to catch regeneration.
Page 271 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 8 - He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd...
Page 10 - ... devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss: More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. That with more care keep Holy-day The wrong...
Page 4 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page lix - Consider, it will soon carry you a great way ; it will carry you from earth to heaven, and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.