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... , " Thou damned wight , The author of this fact we here behold , What justice can but judge against thee right , With thine own blood to price his blood , here shed in sight ? " " What frantic fit , " quoth he , " 36 SPENCER .
... , " Thou damned wight , The author of this fact we here behold , What justice can but judge against thee right , With thine own blood to price his blood , here shed in sight ? " " What frantic fit , " quoth he , " 36 SPENCER .
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... thine impiety ? Is not his law , Let every sinner die , Die shall all flesh ? what then must needs be done , Is it not better to die willingly , Than linger till the glass be all outrun ? Death is the end of woes : die soon , O fairy's ...
... thine impiety ? Is not his law , Let every sinner die , Die shall all flesh ? what then must needs be done , Is it not better to die willingly , Than linger till the glass be all outrun ? Death is the end of woes : die soon , O fairy's ...
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... thine ear , And there such ghastly noise of iron chains , And brazen cauldrons thou shalt rumbling hear , Which thousand spirits , with long enduring pains , Do toss , that will stun thy feeble brains ; And oftentimes great groans and ...
... thine ear , And there such ghastly noise of iron chains , And brazen cauldrons thou shalt rumbling hear , Which thousand spirits , with long enduring pains , Do toss , that will stun thy feeble brains ; And oftentimes great groans and ...
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... thine eyes ; There held in holy passion , still , Forget thyself to marble , till With a sad leaden downward cast , Thou fix them on the earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet Spare Fast that oft with Gods doth diet ...
... thine eyes ; There held in holy passion , still , Forget thyself to marble , till With a sad leaden downward cast , Thou fix them on the earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet Spare Fast that oft with Gods doth diet ...
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... thine . Next Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His mantle hairy , and his bonnet sedge , Inwrought with figures dim , and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with wo . Ah ! who hath reft ( quoth he ) my dearest ...
... thine . Next Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His mantle hairy , and his bonnet sedge , Inwrought with figures dim , and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with wo . Ah ! who hath reft ( quoth he ) my dearest ...
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