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...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of t... ...ay the French, All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, Shone down the English; and, to morrow, they Made Britain India: every man that stood Sh... ...er, In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised: I say again, there is no English soul More stronger to direct you than yourself, If with the sap o... ...e unmanly, yet are follow’d. Chamberlain: As far as I see, all the good our English Have got by the late voyage is but merely A fit or two o’ the fac... ... dear in heart, not to deny her that A woman of less place might ask by law: Scholars allow’d freely to argue for her. KING HENRY VIII : Ay, and the ...

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