Hudibras: In Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Volume 2J. Exshaw, 1757 |
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... turn , does hem me ; And with inextricable Doubt , Befets my puzzled Wits about : 65 For tho ' the Dame has been my Bail , To free me from enchanted Fail : Yet as a Dog , committed clofe For fome Offence , by chance breaks loose , . 45 ...
... turn , does hem me ; And with inextricable Doubt , Befets my puzzled Wits about : 65 For tho ' the Dame has been my Bail , To free me from enchanted Fail : Yet as a Dog , committed clofe For fome Offence , by chance breaks loose , . 45 ...
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... turn'd as black as Ink : And that by Chance being cherming Day . Her Cream moft ftrangely turn'd to Whey . This Dido faw , but would by no Means Tell her own Sifter of the Omens . Mr. Scot ( fee Discovery of Witchcraft , book 12 ...
... turn'd as black as Ink : And that by Chance being cherming Day . Her Cream moft ftrangely turn'd to Whey . This Dido faw , but would by no Means Tell her own Sifter of the Omens . Mr. Scot ( fee Discovery of Witchcraft , book 12 ...
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... turn'd about his Steed , 200 And eftfoons on th ' Adventure rid ; Where leave we Him and Ralph a While , And to the Conjurer turn our Stile , To let our Reader understand What's useful of him , before - hand . . 181 , 187. Made Mars ...
... turn'd about his Steed , 200 And eftfoons on th ' Adventure rid ; Where leave we Him and Ralph a While , And to the Conjurer turn our Stile , To let our Reader understand What's useful of him , before - hand . . 181 , 187. Made Mars ...
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... turns the Spit , 210 Beftirs himself , and plies his Feet To climb the Wheel , but all in vain , His own Weight brings him ... turn Wood or Wire , He never gets two Inches bigher . ( Mr. B. ) * . 224 . Yet none a deeper Knowledge boasted ...
... turns the Spit , 210 Beftirs himself , and plies his Feet To climb the Wheel , but all in vain , His own Weight brings him ... turn Wood or Wire , He never gets two Inches bigher . ( Mr. B. ) * . 224 . Yet none a deeper Knowledge boasted ...
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... turn a Bag of Fleas into a " Meadow every Morning , and fetch them home again at Night , " I durft be anfwerable with my Life for the doing of it to a Flea ; " " but t'other is a Commiffion I dare meddle no farther in . " * . 313 , 314 ...
... turn a Bag of Fleas into a " Meadow every Morning , and fetch them home again at Night , " I durft be anfwerable with my Life for the doing of it to a Flea ; " " but t'other is a Commiffion I dare meddle no farther in . " * . 313 , 314 ...
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Page 20 - But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...
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