Old English Drama: The second maiden's tragedy

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Hurst, Robinson, and Company, 1825
 

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Seite 73 - Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day! With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft To give my love good-morrow. Wings from the wind, to please her mind, Notes from the lark, I'll borrow; Bird, prune thy wing; nightingale, sing, To give my love good-morrow.
Seite 17 - A thing that creeps ; it cannot go ; A prize that passeth to and fro ; A thing for one, a thing for moe ; And he that proves shall find it so ; And, shepherd, this is love, I trow.
Seite 59 - THE Spaniard loves his ancient slop, The Lombard his Venetian, And some like breechless women go, The Russ, Turk, Jew, and Grecian : The thrifty Frenchman wears small waist, The Dutch his belly boasteth, The Englishman is for them all, And for each fashion coasteth.
Seite 17 - Now what is love I will thee tell : It is the fountain and the well, Where pleasure and repentance dwell ; It is perhaps the sansing ' bell, That rings all in to heaven or hell ; And this is love,' and this is love, as I hear tell.
Seite 17 - That rings all into heaven or hell, And this is love, and this is love, as I hear tell. Now what is love I will you show : A thing that creeps and cannot go, A prize that passeth to and fro, A thing for me, a thing for mo...
Seite 60 - Russ with sables furs his cap, And change will not be drawn to : The Spaniard's constant to his block, The French inconstant ever, But of all felts that can be felt, Give me your English beaver.
Seite 64 - Tis poor, and not becoming perfect gentry To build their glories at their fathers' cost, But at their own expense of blood or virtue, To raise them living monuments ; our birth Is not our own act ; honour upon trust Our ill deeds forfeit ; and the wealthy sums Purchas'd by others' fame or sweat, will be Our stain, for we inherit nothing truly But what our actions make us worthy of...
Seite 28 - Favours have glean'd too much :* pray pardon me, If it were mine, they should go look their bracelets, Or stay till the next crop...

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