The Works of Thomas Deloney

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Clarendon Press, 1912 - English literature - 600 pages
 

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Page 595 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 302 - Who tooke it in her hand, And from her bended knee arose, And on her feet did stand: And casting up her eyes to heaven, She did for mercye calle; And drinking up the poison stronge, Her life she lost withalle.
Page 538 - Trenchmore, and the Cushion-Dance, and then all the Company dance, Lord and Groom, Lady and Kitchen-Maid, no distinction. So in our Court, in Queen Elizabeth's time, Gravity and State were kept up.
Page 26 - With that bespake Lord Thomas Howard, the Queenes Chamberlaine that day: If that you put Queen Margaret to death, Scotland shall rue it alway. Then in a rage King Jamie did say, Away with this foolish Mome : He shall be hanged, and the other be burned, so soone as I come home.
Page 580 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Page 368 - The great Saint Philip, The pride of the Spaniards, Was burnt to the bottom, And sunk in the sea ; But the Saint Andrew, And eke the Saint Matthew, We took in fight manfully, And brought them away.
Page 301 - I will renounce this sinfull life, and in a cloyster bide, Or else be banisht, if you please, to range the world so wide : And for the fault which I have done, though I was forst thereto, Preserve my life, and punish me, as you thinke good to do.
Page 366 - Know that Love is a careless child, And forgets promise past; He is blind, he is deaf when he list And in faith never fast. 'His desire is a dureless content And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy.
Page 580 - ... that they come through, what with the noise of their singing. and with the sound of their piping, and with the jangling of their Canterbury bells, and with the barking out of dogs after them, they make more noise than if the king...
Page 535 - The first of the first three was an od old fellow, low of stature, his head was couered with a round cap, his body with a side skirted tawney coate, his legs and feete trust vppe in leather buskins, his gray haires and furrowed face witnessed his age, his treble violl in his hande, assured me of his profession. On which (by his continuall sawing...

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