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John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. Hicetid. This is true Liberty, when free-born men Having to advise the public may speak free, Which he who can, and will, deserv's high praise, Who neither can nor will, may hold his peace; What can be juster in a State than this? Euripid. Hicetid. London, Printed in the yeare 1644.
"Why, I think you have some means of persuasion over Clavering, uncle, or why should he give me that seat in Parlament?" "Clavering thinks he ain't fit for Parliament," the Major answered. "No more he is. What's to prevent him from putting you or anybody else into his place if he likes?
If not Chaucer's, they are of Chaucer's school, and the first two, at least, are very pretty poems after the fashion of his minor pieces, such as the Boke of the Duchesse and the Parlament of Foules.
See even old Chaucer who knew a thing or two about birds, teste his 'Parlament of Foules, admirably but strangely edited by Lounsbury, whose indifference to art was only surpassed by his hostility to nature. Says Chaucer: And as a bytoure bumblith in the myre." My friend canceled his note. It is, of course, now established that the bittern "booms" not in the mud but in the air. Mr.
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