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Kate appeared to have quite forgotten her trouble, and entered into Agatha's mischievous fun with all the thoughtless glee of a child. "Agatha," said Amphillis, "my Lady Foljambe should be heavy angered if she wist thy dealing. Prithee, work not thus. If Father Jordan verily believed thou wert a ghost, it were well-nigh enough to kill him, poor sely old man.
And oft times it befalleth that these two servants and sergeants of the foul fiend, the spirit and prince of wrath and of wickedness, are either by grace and by ghostly slight of a soul stiffly put down and trodden down under foot; or else, by quaintise of their malicious master, the foul fiend of hell, they are quaintly withdrawn, for he thinketh himself for to rise with great malice and wrath, as a lion running felly to assail the sickness of our sely souls; and this befalleth as oft as the thought of our heart stirreth us, not to the lust of our flesh, nor yet to the vain joy of this world, but it stirreth us to murmuring, to grutching, to grievance, and to bitterness of soul, to pain and to impatience, to wrath, to melancholy, and to evil will, to hate, to envy, and to all such sorrows.
It is thence only a step, and a very short one, to John Heywood's interludes though it is a step that took more than a century to accomplish. The first shepherd comes in complaining of the hard weather; his fingers are chapped, the storms blow from every quarter in turn. 'Sely shepardes, moreover, are put upon by any rich upstart and have no redress.
'His choice of the schoolmaster's profession points to a modesty in him, does it not, little woman? 'He made me tell him, while you were writing your letters yesterday, all about my brother and his prospects. 'Yes, that is like him. And I must hear of your brother, "little Collett." Don't forget, Sely, little Collett was our postman.
Had we no supper that night! and 'twas a vigil even. "But how dressed you them?" said Maude. Alvena stopped in her fitting and pinning to laugh. "Thou sely maid! The sacristan was my mother's brother." Maude looked up as if she did not see the inference. "I roasted them in the sacristy, child.
She walked slowly, but quite calmly. Arrived at the place of execution, the sheriff urged her to confess. "I will confess," said Margery, "to Him who can alone absolve me." And lifting up her eyes, she said, "O Lord God, who art above all things, and hast given Thy Son to die for us sely and sinful men, I confess to Thee that I am a vile sinner, utterly unworthy of Thy grace and mercy.
A second shepherd appears with another grumble: 'We sely wedmen dre mekyll wo. Some men, indeed, have been known to desire two wives or even three, but most would sooner have none at all. Whereupon enters Daw, a third shepherd, complaining of portents 'With mervels mo and mo. 'Was never syn noe floode sich floodys seyn'; even 'I se shrewys pepe' apparently a portentous omen.
They kept my pa hid out with stock nearly all time of the Civil War. Both my mas' parents was nearly all Indian too but they was mixed. I'm more Indian than anything else. I heard pa talk about staying in the cane brakes. Mighty few cane brakes to be found now. I come with my grandpa and grandma to Arkansas when I was five years old. "My ma belong to Quill and Sely Whitaker.
So spak the knicht; the geaunt sed, Lend forth with the the sely maid, And mak me quile of the and sche; For glaunsing ee, or brow so brent, Or cheek with rose and lilye blent, Me lists not ficht with the. The tower, before which the party now stood, was a small square building, of the most gloomy aspect.
'His choice of the schoolmaster's profession points to a modesty in him, does it not, little woman? 'He made me tell him, while you were writing your letters yesterday, all about my brother and his prospects. 'Yes, that is like him. And I must hear of your brother, "little Collett." Don't forget, Sely, little Collett was our postman.
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