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Page 285 - depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess.. It is a game that has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two plavers in a game of his or her own. The
Page 285 - man for his soul Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong angel who is playing for love, as we say, and would rather lose than win—and I should accept it as an image of human life.
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Page 211 - His servants stand to give the necke. The Queene. The Queene is queint and quicke conceit, Which makes her walk which way she list, And rootes them up, that lie in wait To work her treason, ere she wist; Her force is such against her foes, That whom she meets she
Page 211 - when young men plaie, So give a mate and go your way. And when you plaie beware of checke, Know how to save and give a necke, And with a checke beware of mate
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