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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Bethink thee, if.thou dost relapse into thine infidelity, though thou art not so tender as a sucking pig?I would I had one to break my fast upon?'thou art not too tough to be roasted Be conformable, Isaac, and repeat the words af- ter me. Ave Maria Nay, we will have no profanation, mad priest, ' said Locksley; let us rather hear where you found this prisoner of thine. By Saint Dunstan, said the Friar, I found him where I sought for tetter ware. I did step into the cellarage to see what might be rescued there; for though a cup of burnt wine, with spice, be an evening's draught for an Emperor, it were waste, methought, to let so much good liquor be mulled at once; and I had caught up one runlet of sack, and was coming to call more aid among these lazy knaves, who are ever to seek when a good deed is to be done, when I was advised of a strong door?Aha thought I, here is the choicest juice of all in this secret crypt; and the knave butler, being disturbed in his vocation, hath left the key in the door?In therefore I went, and found j ust nought, besides a commodity of rusted chains andlhis dog of a Jew, who presently rendered himself my prisoner, rescue or no rescue. I did but refresh myself, after the fatigue of the action, with the unbeliever, with one humming cup of sack, and was proceeding to lead forth my captive, when, crash after crash, as with wild thunder-dint and levin-fire, down toppled the masonry of an outer tower, (marry beshrew Itheir hands that built it not the firmer ) and blocked up the passage. The roar of one falling tower followed another?I gave up thought of life; and deeming it a dishonour to one of my profession to pass out of this world in company with a Jew, I heaved up my halbert to beat his brains out; but I took pity on his grey hairs, a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217227544 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217227546 |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $9.53 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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