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Percy society. castle , had bound the porter , and was now preparing to ascend
the tower of virtue and honour , Fortune and Death appeared and interrupted his
progress . The eclogue ends with another instance of the heartlessness of
Codrus ...
Percy society. castle , had bound the porter , and was now preparing to ascend
the tower of virtue and honour , Fortune and Death appeared and interrupted his
progress . The eclogue ends with another instance of the heartlessness of
Codrus ...
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What is vayne fortune but thynge vytuperable , An unhappy madnesse , unworthy
and unstable . FAUSTUS . No doubte , Amyntas , let me be fortunate , And than
shall I soone become a grete estate ; My coyne shall encrease , than shortly shall
...
What is vayne fortune but thynge vytuperable , An unhappy madnesse , unworthy
and unstable . FAUSTUS . No doubte , Amyntas , let me be fortunate , And than
shall I soone become a grete estate ; My coyne shall encrease , than shortly shall
...
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Where be the frendes of mercy and pyte , Somtyme well rulynge , not spoylynge
of the cyte . Where be chast rulers , just , meke , and lyberall ; Chaunged is
fortune , dethe hath devoured all . The worste remayneth , gon ben the meke and
just .
Where be the frendes of mercy and pyte , Somtyme well rulynge , not spoylynge
of the cyte . Where be chast rulers , just , meke , and lyberall ; Chaunged is
fortune , dethe hath devoured all . The worste remayneth , gon ben the meke and
just .
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THE CYTEZEN AND UPLONDYSHMAN | |
AN INTERLUDE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS | 1 |
INTERLUDE OF THE DISOBEDIENT CHILD | |
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