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"She shall never be Nym's true wife!" cried the Duchess fierily. "I will not have it! I would sooner follow both her and him to the churchyard! I hate, I hate her!" "Thou mayest yet do that following, Joan. But I must not tarry. Peace be with thee!" Peace! of what sort? We are told, indeed, of one who is like a strong man armed, and who keepeth his goods in peace.
Well, Corporal Nym's philosophy must be my comfort 'Things must be as they may. I cannot come to your father's house, where he wishes not to see me; and as to your coming hither, by all that is dear to me, I vow that if you are guilty of such a piece of reckless folly not to say undutiful cruelty, considering your father's thoughts and wishes I will never speak to you again as long as I live!
So long as any yet extant national sentiment, or prejudice, was not yet directly assailed so long as that arbitrary power was yet wise, or fortunate enough to withhold the blow which should make the individual sense of outrage, or the feeling of a class the common one so long as those peaceful, social elements, yet waited the spark that was wanting to unite them so long 'the laws of England' might be, indeed, at a Falstaff's or a Nym's or a Bardolph's 'commandment, for the Poet has but put into 'honest Jack's' mouth, a boast that worse men than he, made good in his time so long, the faith, the lives, the liberties, the dearest earthly hopes, of England's proudest subjects, her noblest, her bravest, her best, her most learned, her most accomplished, her most inspired, might be at the mercy of a woman's caprices, or the sport of a fool's sheer will and obstinacy, or conditioned on some low-lived 'favorites' whims.
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