Hudibras, Written in the Time of the Late WarsCambridge University Press, 1905 - 335 pages |
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... love most tenderly , Quarrel with minc'd Pies , and disparage Their best and dearest friend , Plum - porridge ; Fat Pig and Goose it self oppose , And blaspheme Custard through the Nose . Th ' Apostles of this fierce Religion , Like ...
... love most tenderly , Quarrel with minc'd Pies , and disparage Their best and dearest friend , Plum - porridge ; Fat Pig and Goose it self oppose , And blaspheme Custard through the Nose . Th ' Apostles of this fierce Religion , Like ...
Page 16
... Love , it lookt , He ne'r consider'd it , as loath To look a Gift - horse in the Mouth ; And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than ' twas worth . But as he got it freely , so He spent it frank and freely too . For Saints ...
... Love , it lookt , He ne'r consider'd it , as loath To look a Gift - horse in the Mouth ; And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than ' twas worth . But as he got it freely , so He spent it frank and freely too . For Saints ...
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... Love : Just so Romances are , for what else Is in them all , but Love and Battels ? O ' th ' first of these w'have no great matter To treat of , but a world o ' th ' latter : In which to do the injur'd Right We mean in what concerns ...
... Love : Just so Romances are , for what else Is in them all , but Love and Battels ? O ' th ' first of these w'have no great matter To treat of , but a world o ' th ' latter : In which to do the injur'd Right We mean in what concerns ...
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... love none but onely such As scorn'd and hated her as much . ' Twas a strange Riddle of a Lady ; Not love , if any lov'd her , ha day ! So Cowards never use their might , But against such as will not fight . So some diseases have been ...
... love none but onely such As scorn'd and hated her as much . ' Twas a strange Riddle of a Lady ; Not love , if any lov'd her , ha day ! So Cowards never use their might , But against such as will not fight . So some diseases have been ...
Page 69
... love , And virtue envious ways can prove , What may not he confide to do That brings both love and virtue too ? But thou bring'st valor too and wit , Two things that seldom fail to hit . Valor's a Mouse - trap , Wit a Gin , Which Women ...
... love , And virtue envious ways can prove , What may not he confide to do That brings both love and virtue too ? But thou bring'st valor too and wit , Two things that seldom fail to hit . Valor's a Mouse - trap , Wit a Gin , Which Women ...
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Hudibras; Written in the Time of the Late Wars Samuel Butler,Alfred Rayney Waller No preview available - 2019 |
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