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Well-a-day! alack-a-day! we have fallen on evil times. Yet there is still a God in the heavens above us, and our turn may come yea, our turn may come!" The fierce wild gesture that accompanied these words recalled to Cuthbert's mind the same sort of prediction and menace uttered by Catesby on the night of their journey together over Hammerton Heath.
Alack-a-day! ey wur out i' my reckonin', fo' scarcely had ey reached this kloof, o' my way to Sabden, than ey wur seized wi' a sudden shock, os if a thunder-bowt had hit me, an ey lost the use o' my lower limbs, an t' laft soide, an should ha' deed most likely, if it hadna bin fo' Ebil o' Jem's o' Dan's who spied me out, an brought me help."
Look how he doth hold that fair flower betwixt his thumb and finger, as he would say, 'Good rose, I like thee not so ill but I can bear thy odor for a little while. I take it ye are both wrong, and verily believe that were a furious mouse to run across his path, he would cry, 'La! or 'Alack-a-day! and fall straightway into a swoon. I wonder who he may be."
I gathered together certain certificates of goods and chattels, pointed my heel towards him and his cabbages, and journeyed townward. I was yet a man. There was naught in those certificates to be ashamed of. But alack-a-day!
I promise to deal fairly with the purse." "Alack-a-day!" said the stranger with a little shrug of his shoulders; "I am deeply sorrowful that I cannot show my purse to every rough lout that asks to see it. But I really could not, as I have further need of it myself and every farthing it contains. Wherefore, pray stand aside."
But, dear father and mother, what sort of creatures must the womenkind be, do you think, to give way to such wickedness? Why, this it is that makes every one be thought of alike: And, alack-a-day! what a world we live in! for it is grown more a wonder that the men are resisted, than that the women comply.
Having no bad intent to tease her, But wishing only just to please her, Her family then ceased their jeers And showed their sympathy in tears. Her mother, who her pillow set, Dropped tears and made the room quite wet, And gurgled forth, "Alack-a-day, That here upstairs with mumps you stay!"
"Did ever Tramontane make such an answer?" cries Jones. "Prithee, Partridge, wast thou ever susceptible of love in thy life, or hath time worn away all the traces of it from thy memory?" "Alack-a-day!" cries Partridge, "well would it have been for me if I had never known what love was. Infandum regina jubes renovare dolorem.
Oh! your humble Servant your very humble Servant, Sir. When you write yourself you will find the Necessity of Alterations. Why, Sir, wou'd you guess that I had alter'd Shakespear? Wit. Yes, faith, Sir, no one sooner. Mar. jun. Alack-a-day! Was you to see the Plays when they are brought to us a Parcel of crude, undigested Stuff.
Look how he doth hold that fair flower betwixt his thumb and finger, as he would say, 'Good rose, I like thee not so ill but I can bear thy odor for a little while. I take it ye are both wrong, and verily believe that were a furious mouse to run across his path, he would cry, 'La! or 'Alack-a-day! and fall straightway into a swoon. I wonder who he may be."
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