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Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noon-tide bee, "Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me?" and I replied, "No, not thee!" Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Nay, it was nowise hot. 'Mother mine, answered Caterina, 'you should say "To my seeming," and belike you would say sooth; but you should consider how much hotter are young girls than ladies in years. 'Daughter mine, rejoined the lady, 'that is true; but I cannot make it cold and hot at my pleasure, as belike thou wouldst have me do.
"What wouldst thou say?" said Lord Mackworth. "Only this," said Myles, "an I have thy leave so to do, that the Lady Alice hath chosen me to be her knight, and so, whether I may see her or speak with her or no, the laws of chivalry give me, who am gentle born, the right to serve her as a true knight may." "As a true fool may," said the Earl, dryly.
Happiness of an approving Conscience! Foolish Wordmonger and Motive-grinder, who in thy Logic-mill hast an earthly mechanism for the Godlike itself, and wouldst fain grind me out Virtue from the husks of Pleasure, I tell thee, Nay!
"What wouldst thou, foster-father?" she asked, rising in the couch. Asmund closed the curtains, then looked at her sternly and spoke in a low voice: "Thou art fair to be so vile a thing, Swanhild," he said.
Wouldst thou not, mourner, be comforted rather after the one eternal fashion the child by the father than in such poor temporary way as would but leave thee the more exposed to thy worst enemy, thine own unreclaimed self? an enemy who has but this one good thing in him that he will always bring thee to sorrow! The Lord has come to wipe away our tears.
Lay down thine head, and steal thy worn eyes from their toil. I myself for a little will take thy duty in thy stead. To whom Palinurus, scarcely lifting his eyes, returns: 'Wouldst thou have me ignorant what the calm face of the brine means, and the waves at rest? Shall I have faith in this perilous thing?
'Sure, my lady, no one did ever yet dare think otherwise of my lord, returned Dorothy, amazed. 'But many will now, Dorothy. My God! they will have it that he is a traitor. Wouldst thou believe it, child he is a prisoner in the castle of Dublin! 'But is not Dublin in the hands of the king, my lady? 'Ay! there lies the sting of it! What treacherous friends are these heretics!
"Wouldst thou go without one word to me?" She seated herself in the recess of a window. "I have long wished," she faltered, "to see thee once more. I have now seen the worth and faith of thy heart when contrasted with mine own, and I blush for my weakness my wickedness my folly. Thou mayest deem this unwomanly indelicate; but in love we are equal, and why may not one make reparation as the other?"
Thou wouldst not now have recognized thy father, Wouldst thou, my child? She counted scarce eight years When last she saw your face. THEKLA. O yes, yes, mother! At the first glance! My father has not altered. The form that stands before me falsifies No feature of the image that hath lived So long within me!
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