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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: TALE XIII. JjSSSE AND COLIN. Then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises, and what they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Scene 2. She hath spoken that she should not, I am sure of that; Heaven knows what she hath known. Macbeth, Act V. Scene 1. Our house is hell, and thou a merry devil. Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 3. And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit of too much, as they that starve with nothing; it is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 2. TALE XIII. JESSE AND COLIN. A Vicar died and left his daughter poor? It hurt her not, she was not rich before: Her humble share of worldly goods she sold, Paid every debt, and then her fortune told j And found, with youth and beauty, hope and health, Two hundred guineas was her worldly wealth; It then remain'd to choose her path in life, And first, said Jesse, Shall I be a wife Colin is mild and civil, kind and just, I know his love, his temper I can trust; But small his farm, it asks perpetual care, And we must toil as well as trouble share: True, he was taught in all the gentle arts That raise the soul, and soften human hearts; And boasts a parent, who deserves to shine In higher class, and I could wish her mine; Nor wants he will his station to improve, A just ambition waked by faithful love j? Still is he poor?and here my father's friend Deigns for his daughter, as her own, to sendj A worthy lady, who it seems has known A world of griefs and troubles of her own: I was an infant, when she came, a guest Beneath my father's humble roof...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217111287 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217111289 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $15.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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