The Works of Thomas Deloney

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Clarendon Press, 1912 - English literature - 600 pages
 

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Page 539 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
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 363 - Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care : Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, Age's breath is short, Youth is nimble, age is lame : Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Page 231 - And so with other communication they drove out the time, till dinner was ended. After they were risen, Martin and Hodgekins got them forth about their affaires, but Cut.
Page 375 - WILL you hear a Spanish lady. How shee wooed an English man ? Garments gay as rich as may be Decked with jewels she had on. Of a comely countenance and grace was she, And by birth and parentage of high degree.
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 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 257 - No cause of these feares I know : but it comes now into my minde (said Cole) when I set toward this my last iourney...