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Updated: May 18, 2025
We were grappling, hand to hand, in the midst of their files. But, good lack! What use is swordsmanship in a charge like this? The first red coat that encounter'd me I had spitted through the lung, and, carried on by the rush, he twirled me round like a windmill. In an instant I was pass'd; the giant stepping before me and clearing a space about him, using his pike as if 'twere a flail.
The lesson is very significant in all departments. People resent anything new as a personal insult. When umbrellas were first used in England, those who carried them were hooted and pelted so furiously that their lives were endanger'd. The same rage encounter'd the attempt in theatricals to perform women's parts by real women, which was publicly consider'd disgusting and outrageous.
I die if those two Rivals have encounter'd. Phi. Ah, Madam, cease that fear, they both are safe From all but from the Wounds which you have given them. Er. Oh Gods, what make you here! and where's Alcippus? Phi. Where I had been had Heaven been bountiful. Er. Alas, Sir, what do you mean? what have you done? And where have you bestow'd him? Phi. Why all this high concern, Erminia?
The general, who was a young man, was struck with surprize at her beauty, and pity at her distress; but with still stronger emotions when he heard her mention her former dangers. He was her son, the infant for whom she had encounter'd so much danger. He acknowledged her at once as his mother, and fell at her feet.
One morning early This accident encounter'd me: I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in.
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