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Page 167
Continue this fair race ; then , though I cannot Add to thy comfort , yet I shall more
often Remember from what fortune I am fallen , And pity mine own ruin . - Live ,
live happy , Happy in thy next choice , that thou mayst people This barren age ...
Continue this fair race ; then , though I cannot Add to thy comfort , yet I shall more
often Remember from what fortune I am fallen , And pity mine own ruin . - Live ,
live happy , Happy in thy next choice , that thou mayst people This barren age ...
Page 217
Mo strange ! Cal . Peace crown his ashes ! We are queen then . Near . Long live
Calantha ! Sparta's sovereign queen ! All . Long live the queen ! Cal . What
whisperd Bassanes ? Bass . That my Penthea , miserable soul , Was starv'd to
death .
Mo strange ! Cal . Peace crown his ashes ! We are queen then . Near . Long live
Calantha ! Sparta's sovereign queen ! All . Long live the queen ! Cal . What
whisperd Bassanes ? Bass . That my Penthea , miserable soul , Was starv'd to
death .
Page 224
I am unworthy To live in your remembrance . Euph . Excellent lady ! Near .
Madam , what means that word , “ neglected husband ? " Cal . Forgive me : -10w
I turn to thee ' thou shadow Of my contracted lord ! Bear witness all , I put iny
mother's ...
I am unworthy To live in your remembrance . Euph . Excellent lady ! Near .
Madam , what means that word , “ neglected husband ? " Cal . Forgive me : -10w
I turn to thee ' thou shadow Of my contracted lord ! Bear witness all , I put iny
mother's ...
Page 280
... stagger Or constancy or duty in a wife . You must be king of me ; and my poor
heart Is all I can call mine . War . But we will live , Live , beauteous virtue , by the
lively test Of our own blood , to let the counterfeit Be known the world's contempt .
... stagger Or constancy or duty in a wife . You must be king of me ; and my poor
heart Is all I can call mine . War . But we will live , Live , beauteous virtue , by the
lively test Of our own blood , to let the counterfeit Be known the world's contempt .
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By that sacred thing Last issued from the temple where it dwelt , I mean our
friendship , I am sunk so low In my estate , that , bid me live in Genoa But six
months longer , I survive the remnant Of all my store . Aurel . Umph ! Aur . In my
country ...
By that sacred thing Last issued from the temple where it dwelt , I mean our
friendship , I am sunk so low In my estate , that , bid me live in Genoa But six
months longer , I survive the remnant Of all my store . Aurel . Umph ! Aur . In my
country ...
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Page 114 - I but deceived your eyes with antic gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another Of death ! and death ! and death ! still I danced forward ; But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows, Yet live to court new pleasures, and outlive them : -They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings; Let me die smiling.
Page viii - What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight.