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... peace . Act iv . S. 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way , and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets , and pressed the dead bodies . No eye hath seen such scare- crows . I'll not march through Coventry with them , that's flat : nay , and ...
... peace . Act iv . S. 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way , and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets , and pressed the dead bodies . No eye hath seen such scare- crows . I'll not march through Coventry with them , that's flat : nay , and ...
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... peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears , Then imitate the action of the tiger : Stiffen the sinews , summon up the blood . Act iii . Sc . I. And sheath'd ...
... peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears , Then imitate the action of the tiger : Stiffen the sinews , summon up the blood . Act iii . Sc . I. And sheath'd ...
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... peace , Have no delight to pass away the time . - Act i . Sc . I. To leave this keen encounter of our wits . Acti . Sc . 2 . Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? Was ever woman in this humour won ? Framed in the prodigality of nature ...
... peace , Have no delight to pass away the time . - Act i . Sc . I. To leave this keen encounter of our wits . Acti . Sc . 2 . Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? Was ever woman in this humour won ? Framed in the prodigality of nature ...
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... peace , To silence envious tongues : be just , and fear not . Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's , Thy God's , and truth's . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king , he would not in ...
... peace , To silence envious tongues : be just , and fear not . Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's , Thy God's , and truth's . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king , he would not in ...
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... peace have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever , he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel , nor poi- son , Malice domestic ...
... peace have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever , he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel , nor poi- son , Malice domestic ...
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Acti angels Beaumont and Fletcher beauty blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Canto iii Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death Devil doth dream Dryden Dunciad earth Eccles Eloisa to Abelard Epistle Epitaph Essay eyes Faerie Queene fair fear flower fool give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN Julius Cæsar King Lady Letter light Line live Lord man's Matt mind morning nature ne'er never Night numbers o'er Paradise Lost peace pleasure Plutarch Pope Prologue Prov Proverbs Satire Satire vi Shakespeare sigh sleep smile Song Song of Solomon Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tears thee There's thine things THOMAS thought truth unto viii virtue voice weep wind wise woman words young youth