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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ransla... .................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA ......................................................... ...ard Wagner’s operatic Ring Cycle is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Origina... ...cated man, but no trouble has been taken to make him familiar with his own people or their tongue. Even that Englishman who knew Alfred, Bede, Caedmon... ..., Cicero, or Pericles, would be hard bestead were he asked about the great peoples from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; ... ...imes has been altered in a thousand ways by foreign influence, even as the peoples and their speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Icel... ...nar says that it is a deed well worthy of death, that taking of Brynhild’s maidenhead; “So come now, let us prick on Guttorm to do the deed.” Therewit...

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...ch oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that, through long continuance of his course, Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse....

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...e of his course, Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse ... ... sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. For from the golden age, that first was named, It’s now at earst become ... ...ged quight. Ne wonder; for the heauens reuolution Is wandred farre from where it first was pight, And so doe make contrarie constitutio... ...e ground: Iustice sate high ador’d with solemne feasts, And to all people did diuide her dred beheasts. Most sacred vertue she of all t... ...us sight, To sit in his owne seate, his cause to end, And rule his people right, as he doth recommend. The Faerie Queene: Book V. 5 Dr... ...ies stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, That furthest Nations filles with awfu... ... That a proud Amazon did late defy All the braue Knights, that hold of Maidenhead, And vnto them wrought all the villany, That she cou... ...nd know, How Fortune will your ruin’d name repaire, And knights of Maidenhead, whose praise she would empaire. With that, like one that...

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...Excerpt: It falles me here to write of Chastity, That fairest vertue, farre aboue the rest; For which what needs me fetch from Faery Forreine ensamples, it to haue exprest? Sith it is shrined in my Soueraines brest, And form?d so liuely in each perfect part That to all Ladies, which haue it profest, Need but behold the pourtraict of her hart, If...

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...hat fairest vertue, farre aboue the rest; For which what needs me fetch from Faery Forreine ensamples, it to haue exprest? Sith it is s... ...er soiourne and abode; But when thereto they might not be allured, From seeking praise, and deeds of armes abrode, They courteous conge... ...lorie and renowmed praise; Full many Countries they did ouerronne, From the vprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard aduentures did... ... His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispred, At sight whereof the people stand aghast: But the sage wisard telles, as he has red, ... ...rrunne, And holy Church with faithlesse hands deface, That thy sad people vtterly fordonne, Shall to the vtmost mountaines fly apace: ... ... But the third time shall rew his foolhardise: For Cadwan pittying his peoples ill, Shall stoutly him defeat, and thousand Saxons kill. ... ... Ne poysnous Enuy iustly can empaire The prayse of her fresh flowring Maidenhead; For thy, she standeth on the highest staire Of th’h...

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...ST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONESTY Y Y Y Y NO MAN IS FREE from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to ... ...e.” —Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.] This does not concern me; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value, and ’tis the bette... ... refused it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arm... ...evented their aggrandisement in those parts. He returned answer, “that the people of Rome were wont to revenge themselves of their enemies by open way... ...ful that they should nei- ther be deceived in me nor deceive others by me. People of that kind of trading are very reserved, and pretend to be the mos... ...or his heart, tore it out, and threw it to the dogs. And even to the worst people it is the sweetest thing imaginable, hav- ing once gained their end ... ..., amongst his laws, also regulated the motions to be observed in getting a maidenhead. What was the philoso- pher Strato’s book Of Carnal Conjunction?... ...d it more easy to carry a suit of armour all the days of one’s life than a maidenhead; and the vow of virginity of all others is the most noble, as be... ...oyed it.”—St. Augustine, De Civit. Dei, i. 18.] Such a one, by seeking her maidenhead, has lost it; an- other by playing with it has destroyed it. We ...

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...ee what you can do for me,” he said. “I’m sure I don’t,” said the doctor. “People come here and talk.” There was something reassuringly inaggressive a... ... with his hands in his trouser pockets, seemed intent only on disavowals. “People come here and talk. It does them good, and sometimes I am able to of... ...afford to have you ill.” “I am ill. But you can’t afford to have me absent from that Commission.” “Your technical knowledge—” “Technical knowledge be ... ... far. Everything short and running shorter—food, fuel, material. But these people go on. They go on as though nothing had changed…. Strikes, Russia, n... ...t feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They hide all their troubles from the road. Their backyards are tucked away out of sight, they show a br... ... well as far as it goes. But it does not cover my case. I am not suffering from inadaptation. I have adapted. I have thought things out. I think—much ... ...23 H G Wells system…. And now I suppose we have to get that little ruin to Maidenhead.” “Little ruin!” repeated Sir Richmond. “No. There’s lots of lif... ... will Get You Home. We shall have to hail some passing car to take it into Maidenhead.” Dr. Martineau offered and Sir Richmond took and lit a cigarett... ...ic temperament. He began as they stood waiting for the relief car from the Maidenhead garage. “You were talking of the ghosts of apes and monkeys that...

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...ry in the popular tales of all countries, so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of su...

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...ius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every countr... ...eeing Psyche’s charms, became enamoured of her, and re- solved to save her from his mother and make her his own. He therefore caused Zephyr to transpo... ...the wrath of Venus pursued her; Ceres and all the other deities chased her from their temples; even when she would have drowned herself, the river god... ...ho had been put out to nurse had no more manners than the calves and pigs. People were the more flattering to us because they expected soon to see my ... ...ced, after which the walk was continued to the farm-house, where the young people were made very welcome. Farmers were, as a rule, more rustic than th... ...here rolled Father Thames. The travellers took early morning with them for Maidenhead Thicket, and breakfasted on broiled trout at the King’s Arms at ... ....” “O sir, I was heartily glad to escape and to get the children away. The people were becoming so rude and riotous that I was frightened. I never wou...

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...Excerpt: Rumour: Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears o...

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...for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post horse, still ... ...on, And not a man of them brings other news Than they have learn’d of me: from Rumour’s tongues They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wro... ...DOLPH : Noble earl, I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury. NORTHUMBERLAND: Good, an God will! LORD BARDOLPH : ... ...ep them off, Bardolph. FANG: A rescue! a rescue! MISTRESS QUICKLY: Good people, bring a rescue or two. Henry 4th, Part 2, Act II, scene i 19 Thou ... ...as gone down stairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people; saying that ere long they should call me madam? And didst thou not ... ...enly man at arms are you become! Is’t such a matter to get a pottle pot’s maidenhead? Page: A’ calls me e’en now, my lord, through a red lattice, an... ...it in So thin that life looks through and will break out. GLOUCESTER: The people fear me; for they do observe Henry 4th, Part 2, Act IV, scene iv 63 ...

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...ea-kest goes to the wall. Samp. True, and therefore women being the weaker Vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Mountagues men from the wall, and thrust his Maides to the wall. Greg. The Quarrell is betweene our Masters, and us |(their men. Samp. ?Tis all one, I will shew my selfe a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will bee civill with the ...

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...are euer thrust to the wall: therefore I will push 21 Mountagues men from the wall, and thrust his Maides to 22 the wall. 23 Gre... ... the fire of your pernitious Rage, 87 With purple Fountaines issuing from your Veines: 88 On paine of Torture, from those bloody hands 89... ... Where vnderneath the groue of Sycamour, 124 That West- ward rooteth from this City side: 125 So earely walking did I see your Sonne: 126 ... ...se wher’s my daughter? call her forth to me. 353 Nurse. Now by my Maidenhead, at twelue yeare old 354 I bad her come, what Lamb: what La... ...ap. What should it be that they so shrike abroad? 3063 Wife. O the people in the streete crie Romeo. 3064 Some Iuliet, and some Paris, ...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...rds to Cologne, A city which presents to the inspector Eleven thousand maidenheads of bone, The greatest number flesh hath ever known. Byron’s...

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... GOWER .] [Before the palace of Antioch .] To sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man’s infirmities, To glad you... ...er face the book of praises, where is read Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath Pericles, Act I, scene... ...e to you And all good men, as every prince should do; My riches to the earth from whence they came; But my unspotted fire of love to you. [To the Daug... ...for their drouth. Hymen hath brought the bride to bed. Where, by the loss of maidenhead, A babe is moulded. Be attent, And time that is so briefly spe... ...ord, but think Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, For which the people’s prayers still fall upon you, Must in your child be thought on. I... ... virgin ity; and cry ‘He that will give most shall have her first.’ Such a maidenhead were no cheap thing, if men were as they have been. Get this ... ...ice. Bawd: And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort? BOULT: ‘Faith, they listened to... ...ome your ways. MARINA: Whither would you have me? BOULT: I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common hangman shall execute it. Come your ... ... altar sacrifice. There, when my maiden priests are met together, Before the people all, Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife: To mourn thy cros...

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... Witnesse the father of Philosophie, Which to his Critias, shaded oft from sunne, Of loue full manie lessons did apply, The which the... ... better deigne to heare, Do thou dred infant, Venus dearling doue, From her high spirit chase imperious feare, And vse of awfull Maiest... ...rops of melting loue, Deawd with ambrosiall kisses, by thee gotten From thy sweete smyling mother from aboue, Sprinckle her heart, and ... ... creasted all with lines of firie light, That it prodigious seemes in common peoples sight. Such when those Knights and Ladies all about Beheld her, a... ...o striue: Such as that prudent Romane well inuented, What time his people into partes did riue, Them reconcyld againe, and to their hom... ... The field with listes was all about enclos’d, To barre the prease of people farre away; And at th’one side sixe iudges were dispos’d, ... ...Which doughty T riamond had wrought that day, Vnto the noble Knights of Maidenhead, His mighty heart did almost rend in tway, For very ... ...uiers make hast to helpe their Lords fordonne. But still the Knights of Maidenhead the better wonne. Till that there entred on the other sid...

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...rke. 100 Buc. The diuell speed him: No mans Pye is freed 101 From his Ambitious finger. What had he 102 To do in these fierce Vanit... ...ke 104 Take vp the Rayes o’th’ beneficiall Sun, 105 And keepe it from the Earth. 106 Nor. Surely Sir, 107 There’s in him stuff... ...9 Peepe through each part of him: whence ha’s he that, 120 If not from Hell? The Diuell is a Niggard, 121 Or ha’s giuen all before, and ... ... As first, good Company, good wine, good welcome, 673 Can make good people. 674 Enter L[ord]. Chamberlaine L[ord]. Sands, and Louell. 675... ...ir Thomas Louell, Sir Nicholas 892 Vaux, Sir Walter Sands, and common people, &c. - 20 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight ... ...5 2. Let’s stand close and behold him. 896 Buck. All good people, 897 You that thus farre haue come to pitty me; 898 Heare ... ...r content 1229 Is our best hauing. 1230 Anne. By my troth, and Maidenhead, 1231 I would not be a Queene. 1232 Old.L. Beshrew m... ...be a Queene. 1232 Old.L. Beshrew me, I would, 1233 And venture Maidenhead for’t, and so would you 1234 For all this spice of your Hipo...

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... and Sons edition. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Estract from the Life of a Scholar. From the “London Magazine” for September 1821. ... ...t delicate and honourable re- serve which, for the most part, restrains us from the public exposure of our own errors and infirmities. Nothing, indeed... ...onfessions (that is, sponta- neous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers: and for any such acts of gratuito... ...hought the subject of too delicate a nature to be made common; and as many people might then indiscriminately use it, it would take from that neces- s... ...rnishing a key to some parts of that tremendous scen- ery which afterwards peopled the dreams of the Opium-eater. 3. As creating some previous interes... ...r may have remarked, but I have often remarked, that the proudest class of people in England (or at any rate the class whose pride is most ap- parent)... ...il (possibly at a post-office), and on inquiry I found that we had reached Maidenhead—six or seven miles, I think, ahead of Salthill. Here I alighted,...

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...ether, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue their loves! ARCHIDA... ...RMIONE: I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir, Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are ... ...ll; this satisfaction The by gone day proclaim’d: say this to him, He’s beat from his best ward. LEONTES: Well said, Hermione. HERMIONE:... ...ot to me and thy places shall Still neighbor mine. My ships are ready and My people did expect my hence departure Two days ago. This jealousy Is for a... ...e of day; and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina, The Winter’ s Tale, Act IV , scene iv...

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...(KING HENRY VIII:) CARDINAL WOLSEY: CARDINAL CAMPEIUS: CAPUCIUS: Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER: Archbishop of Canterbury. DUKE OF NO... ...nd Cardinal of York. BUCKINGHAM: The devil speed him! no man’s pie is freed From his ambitious finger. What had he To do in these fierce vanities? I ... ...ch can with his very bulk Take up the rays o’ the beneficial sun And keep it from the earth. NORFOLK: Surely, sir, There’s ... ...all as merry As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome, Can make good people. O, my lord, you’re tardy: [Enter Chamberlain, SANDS, and LOVELL .... ...im; halberds on each side: accompanied with LOVELL, VAUX, SANDS, and common people .] Second Gentleman : Let’s stand close, and behold him. Henry VI... ...III, Act II, scene i 26 BUCKINGHAM: All good people, You that thus far have come to pity me, Hear what I say, and then... ... Our content Is our best having. ANNE: By my troth and maidenhead, I would not be a queen. Old Lady : Bes... ... a queen. Old Lady : Beshrew me, I would, And venture maidenhead for’t; and so would you, For all this spice of your hypocrisy:...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ... to brag that he had had as good a bout, as when he 265 Montaigne got her maidenhead, unknown to their parents. The kings of Persia were wont to invi...

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...p before it. 3 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA PROLOGUE In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed, Have ... ...nd instruments Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that wore Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made To ... ...LUS: Because not there: this woman’s answer sorts, For womanish it is to be from thence. What news, AEneas, from the field to day? AENEAS: That Pari... ...fight indifferent well. I marvel where Troilus is. Hark! do you not hear the people cry ‘Troilus’? Helenus is a priest. CRESSIDA: What sneaking fello... ...all have such a life! [Enter PANDARUS .] PANDARUS: How now, how now! how go maidenheads? Here, you maid! where’s my cousin Cressid? CRESSIDA: Go han...

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................................................... 59 COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME ...................................................................... ..................................................................... 69 COME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS ..................................................... ... an inland bird First by the seaworn sailor heard; And like road sheltered from life’s sea Thine honest heart is unto me. THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHO... ...d take their rest. The cock has crown in the steading-yard, But priest and people slumber hard. We two are early forth, and hear The nations snoring f... ... the day prepares With nimble, gay and gracious airs: And from Penzance to Maidenhead The roads last night He watered. God calls us from inglorious ea...

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...nter VALENTINE.] How now! what news from her? VALENTINE: So please my lord, I might not be admit ted; But from... ...Captain: Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born Not three hours travel from this very place. VIOLA: Who governs here? Captain: A noble duke, in ... .... Captain: And so is now, or was so very late; For but a month ago I went from hence, And then twas fresh in murmur, as, you know, What great ones d... ... not, madam: tis a fair young man, and well attended. OLIVIA: Who of my people hold him in delay? MARIA: Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman. OLIVIA: F... ...[Exit MALVOLIO.] Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and people dislike it. Clown: Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldes... ...arned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I would, are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears, divinity, to any other s, profanation. OLIVIA: G... ...scene v FABIAN: O peace, peace, peace! now, now. MALVOLIO: Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make out for him: I frown the while; and p...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ... calumny, and to the prejudice of the characters of many worthy and honest people. I question not but the ingenious author of the Spectator was prin... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ...probation. “Why now, that’s friendly,” said he; “d—n me, I hate to see two people bear ill will to one another after they have had a tussel. The only ... ...ion besides his good offices in assisting at the perfor mance. The good people now ranged themselves round the kitchen fire, where good humour seem... ...ng a merry song, which bore some relation to matri mony and the loss of a maidenhead. Nay, he would have proceeded so far on that topic as to have dr...

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..., be not so phleg matic. Hear the truth of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh. DOCTOR CAIUS : Vell. SIMPLE: Ay, forsooth; to desire he... ...MISTRESS PAGE: Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he’s as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause; and that I hope is an unmeasur... ...little nearer this ways. FALSTAFF: I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own people, mine own people. MISTRESS QUICKLY: Are they so? God bless them and... ...ousand times; and she gives you to notify that her husband will be absence from his house between ten and eleven. FALSTAFF: Ten and eleven? MISTRESS ... ...t! who’s at home besides yourself? MISTRESS FORD : Why, none but mine own people. MISTRESS PAGE : Indeed! MISTRESS FORD : No, certainly. [Aside to ... ...there is three cozen germans that has cozened all the hosts of Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and money. I tell you for good will, lo...

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... flegmaticke: heare the 467 truth of it. He came of an errand to mee, from Parson 468 Hugh. 469 Ca. Vell. 470 Si. I forsoo... ...age. Why look where he comes; and my good 645 man too: hee’s as farre from iealousie, as I am from gi-uing 646 him cause, and that (I hope) ... ...es. 820 Fal. I warrant thee, no- bodie heares: mine owne 821 people, mine owne people. 822 Qui. Are they so? heauen- blesse the... ...s; and she giues 851 you to notifie, that her husband will be absence from his 852 house, betweene ten and eleuen. - 19 - The Merry Wiues o... ... 1911 besides your selfe? 1912 Mis.Ford. Why none but mine owne people. 1913 Mis.Page. Indeed? 1914 Mis.Ford. No certainly:... ..., - 51 - The Merry Wiues of Windsor Shakespeare: First Folio 2295 of Maidenhead; of Cole- brooke, of horses and money: I 2296 tell you for ...

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...s, of your great goodness, for ye have rescued me of my life, and saved me from my death. What is your name? said Sir Tristram. He said: My name is Si... ...is tower, there came out Sir Breuse Saunce Pité, and suddenly he struck me from my horse. And then or I might recover my horse this Sir Breuse slew th... ...nd without any more words he hurled unto Sir Tristram, and smote him clean from his saddle to the earth, and hurt him on the left side, that Sir Trist... ...oath, they withdrew them to the Castle of Tintagil with great slaughter of people; and the Sessoins followed on fast, that ten of them were put within... ...hus they fought till it was night, and for great slaughter and for wounded people everych party drew to their rest. And when King Mark was come within... ...ark and his brother, that was called the good Prince Boudwin, that all the people of the country loved passing well. So it befell on a time that the m... ...knight, said she, ye have better sped than ye weened, for an I had lost my maidenhead, five hundred men should have died for it. What knight was he th... ...r I, nor none of my father’s men, mistrusted him not, and if he had had my maidenhead he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and dishono...

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...households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hand... ...t grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star cross’d lovers ... ...essels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall. GREGORY: The quarrel is b... ...he maids? SAMPSON: Ay, the heads of the maids, or their 5 Act I, scene i maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt. GREGORY: They must take it i... ...T : Nurse, where’s my daughter? call her forth to me. Nurse: Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old, I bade her come. What, lamb! what, lady ... ...’ll to my wedding bed; Act III, scene ii 58 And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead! Nurse: Hie to your chamber: I’ll find Romeo To comfort you: ... ...PULET: What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? LADY CAPULET : The people in the street cry Romeo, Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run, W...

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...f the charge set down But yesternight: when all athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news; Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer... ...Glendower, Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken, A thousand of his people butchered; Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse, Such beastl... ...ith other did, my gra cious lord; For more uneven and unwelcome news Came from the north and thus it did import: On Holy rood day, the gallant Hotspu... ... Here is a dear, a true industrious friend, Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse. Stain’d with the variation of each soil Betwixt that Holmed... ...like, if there come a hot June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hob nails, by the hundreds. FALSTAFF: By the mass,... ...ous, a home to fly unto. If that the devil and mischance look big Upon the maidenhead of our affairs. EARL OF WORCESTER : But yet I would your father... ...derations infinite Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no, We love our people well; even those we love That are misled upon your cousin’s part; An...

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...y huge beside him stood, 194 A Pagan damsel there unwares he met, 15 ?A Pagan therefore thee I fostered have, 278 ?A pinnace take thee swift as shaft from bow, 20 A privy door Ismen unlocked at last, 235 ?A rumbling sound amid the waters deep 331 A secret place they found in one of those, 347 A shadow, blacker than the mirkest night, 370 A shepherd fair Erminia entertains,...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ...he hated chambers, closets, secret news, And in broad fields preserved her maidenhead: Proud were her looks, yet sweet, though stern and stout, Her da...

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...endent on a printed text. Caxton?s story of how the book was brought to him and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but to some extent its editor also, dividing Malory?s work into twentyone books, splitting up the books into chapters, by no means skilfully, and supplying...

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... and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but t... ...as Malorie occurred among those of a number of other Lancastrians excluded from a general pardon granted by Edward IV . in 1468, and that a William Ma... ...Wars of the Roses might have inspired them in any one, come most naturally from an author who was a Lancastrian knight. If the Morte Darthur was reall... ...t many pavilions, and there was great war made on both par- ties, and much people slain. Then for pure anger and for great love of fair Igraine the ki... ...surped upon him, and did a great battle upon his men, and slew many of his people. Sir, said Merlin, ye may not lie so as ye do, for ye must to the fi... ...s of arms, and King Uther’s men overcame the Northern battle and slew many people, and put the remnant to flight. And then the king returned unto Lond... ... milk kine, there met with her a stern knight, and half by force he had my maidenhead, and at that time he begat my son Tor, and he took away from me ...

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...ed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round ... ...contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subo... ...g as remorse- lessly as they worked themselves. Findlayson thought it over from the beginning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the ... ...he big gong had brought the dinghy back at racing speed, and Peroo and his people were stripped to the waist, working for the honour and credit which ... ...pling grow as fat as myself. And I, who am Ganesh of Good Luck, I bless my peoples.” “They have changed the face of the land-which is my land. They ha... ...Bhairon went on thickly. “By day and night they pray to me, all the Common People in the fields and the roads. Who is like Bhairon today? What talk is... ...e, “that my Colonel’s son who may be—that my Colonel’s son should lose his maidenhead on any small jungle beast. That may come after. I have waited lo...

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...of the creation, “Increase and Multiply.” And since it is natural in young people to desire the embraces, proper to the marriage bed, it behoves paren... ...ch sometimes enables them to bear at 65. But many times the menses proceed from some vio- lence done to nature, or some morbific matter, which often p... ...ess- ing of the Gods: not only so, but the sex, whether male or female, is from their disposal also, though it cannot be de- nied, that secondary caus... ... must be used for a considerable time, or you will reap but little benefit from them. The act of coition being over, let the woman repose herself on h... ...d himself commanded Moses not to receive such to offer sacrifice among his people; and he also renders the reason Leviticus, xxii. 28, “Lest he pollut... ...emselves into human shapes, may abuse both men and women, and, with wicked people, use carnal copula- tion; but that any unnatural conjunction can bri... ...rsonage thought differently, and to use his own expression:—“The getting a maidenhead was such a piece of drudgery, that it was fitter for a coal heav... ... the fracture of that which is commonly taken for a woman’s vir- ginity or maidenhead, is no absolute sign of immorality, though it is more frequently... ...Aristotle small quantity of pure white wine or of claret, as also syrup of maidenhead or any other syrup that is of an astringent quality, taken in a ...

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...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ... wholesomest soil in England. It is built on the river Thames, sixty miles from the sea, and was originally founded, as all historians agree, by Brutu... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...seventh, not without suspicion of poison. Mary was proclaimed queen by the people on the 19th of July, and died in November, 1558, and is buried in so... ...ntinued ridge, and divide the counties of Oxford and Buckingham. We passed Maidenhead. Windsor, a royal castle, supposed to have been begun by 32 Kin...

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...o not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, an... ...ed much among the trumpets, and yet they longed to return. He told himself from day to day, that though he had been banished from the House of Commons... ... dead. Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality, had the ... ...rt to him. But now it was as though all outside appliances were taken away from him. There was no one of whom he could ask a question. For it may be s... ...r himself a single intimate friend—except that one who had now passed away from him. To her he had been able to say what he thought, even though she w... ...y all met,—the father, the three children, and Mrs Finn. How far the young people among themselves had been able to throw off something of the gloom o... ...owever left him when in the course of the afternoon he found himself up at Maidenhead with Miss Boncassen. Miss Boncassen at any rate did not laugh at... ...s. ‘Loverly spot, isn’t it?’ 235 Anthony Trollope ‘Yes, indeed. ’ ‘That’s Maidenhead Bridge;—that’s somebody’s place;— and now, I’ve got something to... ...abominable climate, ’ Mrs Boncassen had said when they were quite alone at Maidenhead. ‘My dear, you didn’t think you were going to bring New York alo...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ...he hated chambers, closets, secret news, And in broad fields preserved her maidenhead: Proud were her looks, yet sweet, though stern and stout, Her da...

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...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of... ...city of Epirus being reduced by the Romans to the last extremity, gave the people counsel uni- versally to kill themselves; but, these preferring to g... ... rather than await the stroke of justice, told him that it was to do other people’s business to preserve his life to put it after into the hands of th... ...ing the amours of his boyhood with Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, he had the maidenhead of the renowned Cleopatra, queen of Egypt; witness the little Ca...

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...nd agricultural in its pleasures. There are towns in it, of course; depots from whence are brought seeds and groceries, ribbons and fire-shovels; in w... ...oming—in accordance with the dic- tates of some neighbouring land magnate; from whence emanate the country postmen, and where is located the supply of... ...is in these days an East Barsetshire, and there is a West Barsetshire; and people conversant with Barsetshire do- ings declare that they can already d... ...ice again he made violent efforts to do so. Elections in East Barsetshire, from various causes, came quick upon each other in those days, and before h... ...se in Portman Square, she had worried him because he objected to have more people carried every winter at Greshamsbury Park than the house would hold;... ...llowed them, nor had they suffered as their sisters had suffered; and some people at Greshamsbury attributed this to the fact that a change had been m... .... Scatcherd had many companions at school who were glad enough to go up to Maidenhead with him his boat; but there was not one among them who would ha...