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Machell Stace, 1811 - 168 sivua

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Sivu 18 - There Dutton, Dutton kills ; a Done doth kill a Done ; A Booth, a Booth ; and Leigh by Leigh is overthrown ; A Venables against a Venables doth stand ; And Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck hand to hand ; There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die ; And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth try...
Sivu 48 - You shall swear by custom of confession, If ever you made nuptial transgression, Be you either married man or wife, If you have brawls or contentious strife Or otherwise at bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or word, Or since the Parish Clerk said amen, You wish'd yourselves unmarried again?
Sivu 140 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
Sivu 95 - I can say no more of it, but only to set forth the antiquity thereof as tradition goes. William, Earl of Warren, the first lord of this town, in the time of King John, standing upon his castle-walls in Stamford, saw two bulls fighting for a cow in a meadow under the same.
Sivu 139 - As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in one church we see ; As many marble pillars there appear, As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many gates as moons one year do view: Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true.
Sivu 137 - Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To DRAYTON'S name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve his story : Remain a lasting monument of his glory ; And when thy ruins shall disclaim To be the treasurer of his name, His name that cannot fade shall be An everlasting monument to thee.] 0 Read ' Ml ' {Michael ?]. 1 Of Anderson's Life.
Sivu 48 - A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Though the sport be ours the bacon's your own.
Sivu 105 - That she is a widow, and hath already children, by God's blessed lady, I am a bachelor and have some too ; and so each of us hath a proof that neither of us is like to be barren.
Sivu 107 - And in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Sivu 97 - What doth Sir Thomas, but in the night-time sends for workmen to London (money commands all things), who so speedily and silently apply their business, that the next morning discovered that court double, which the night had left single before.