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... honour- able gentlemen , and to state the treasons of which you stand accused , without respecting how you may like it . My lord , you well remember how the Earl of Desmond , your kinsman , sent emissaries with letters to Francis , the ...
... honour- able gentlemen , and to state the treasons of which you stand accused , without respecting how you may like it . My lord , you well remember how the Earl of Desmond , your kinsman , sent emissaries with letters to Francis , the ...
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... honour , or a nobleman adorned with so great a trust . Had you lost but a cow or a carrion of your own , two hundred retainers would have started up at your whistle , to rescue the prey from the farthest edge of Ulster . All the Irish ...
... honour , or a nobleman adorned with so great a trust . Had you lost but a cow or a carrion of your own , two hundred retainers would have started up at your whistle , to rescue the prey from the farthest edge of Ulster . All the Irish ...
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... honours examine them apart , you will find that they are the tools of others , suborned to say , swear , and state any thing but truth ; and that their tongues are chained , as it were , to some patron's trencher . I am grieved , my ...
... honours examine them apart , you will find that they are the tools of others , suborned to say , swear , and state any thing but truth ; and that their tongues are chained , as it were , to some patron's trencher . I am grieved , my ...
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... honour of which they knew not the force . There remained then only one course which reconciled every thing : it was a frightful one ; however it appears to have been believed to be necessary . " On the 20th Ventose ( March 10 ) , in the ...
... honour of which they knew not the force . There remained then only one course which reconciled every thing : it was a frightful one ; however it appears to have been believed to be necessary . " On the 20th Ventose ( March 10 ) , in the ...
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... honour . As soon as they had crouched under the door , and were able to stand upright , they welcomed me with a very ... honour , we are all her sons - in - law , except myself , who am her lawful son . ' Then you are my foster - brother ...
... honour . As soon as they had crouched under the door , and were able to stand upright , they welcomed me with a very ... honour , we are all her sons - in - law , except myself , who am her lawful son . ' Then you are my foster - brother ...
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