Traditions of Lincolnshire

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Seite 176 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 69 - tis too true; How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word: O heavy burden!
Seite 214 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Seite 45 - When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be, — When the Devil got well, the Devil a monk was he.
Seite 103 - If all the roomes in it were repayred, and furnished [as it «eemes in former tymes they have bin] it were capable to receyve a very great prince with all his trayne. " The entrance into it is very stately over a faire draw-bridge. The gate-house a very uniforme, and strong building. Next within the porter's lodge is a payre of low stayres, which goe dowue into a dungeon, in which some reliques are yet to be seene of a prison-house.
Seite 103 - CHAP. rv. amongst which is a fayre great chamber with other lodgings. " In a roome in one of the towers of the castle they usually kept their audit once by the yeare for the whole Dutchy of Lancaster, having ever bin the prime scale thereof, where all the recordes for the whole countrey are kept. " The constable of the castle is Sir William Mounson Lord Castlemayne, who receaveth a revenue out of the dutehy lands of £500.
Seite 234 - I'd give all my estate it were " one. Death! let me see him" What's his name > Where is he > Who is this landlord ! Flora. Let your passion abate a little : let it ebb a while : recall your reason, and I'll tell you— Know then, you are this landlord, Sir, the sole lord of this demesne and me : this morning I was mistress of this house, these servants, and all the dirty acres within three miles round us ; now they are yours, you are their master now. Free. What say you, Sir! Shall the landlord have...
Seite vii - Church shall be repaired and decently fitted up to make a Librarye, to the end that, in case any well and charitably disposed person shall hereafter bestow any books to the use of the parish, they may be there safely preserved and kept.
Seite 225 - COME o'er the sea, Maiden, with me, Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes. Let fate frown on, so we love and part not ; Tis life where thou art, 'tis death where thou art not...
Seite 103 - There be certain rooms within the Castle (built by Queen Elizabeth, of freestone) amongst which is a fayre great chamber, with other lodgings.

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