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With sweetness of song this beast maketh shipmen to sleep, and when she seeth that they are asleep, she goeth into the ship, and ravisheth which she may take with her, and bringeth him into a dry place, and maketh him first lie by her, and if he will not or may not, then she slayeth him and eateth his flesh. Of such wonderful beasts it is written in the great Alexander's story.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy, in the minds of men. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government.
She was past mistress in every manner of arts and accomplishments and endowed with many excellences, surpassing all the folk of her age and time. "Her fair shape ravisheth, if face to face she did appear, * And if she turn, for severance from her she slayeth sheer. Sun-like, full-moon-like, sapling-like, unto her character * Estrangement no wise appertains nor cruelty austere.
And it is of so great virtue and strength, that though thou do a stone of an hundred pound weight upon quicksilver of the weight of two pounds, the quicksilver anon withstandeth the weight. And if thou doest thereon a scruple of gold, it ravisheth unto itself the lightness thereof. And so it appeareth it is not weight, but nature to which it obeyeth.
BELTANE. "That same lord that showed mercy on yonder poor maimed wretch? Know you him?" FRIAR. "In very sooth, and 'tis a potent lord that holdeth me in some esteem, a most Christian knight " BELTANE. "That ravisheth the defenceless! Whose hands be foul with the blood of innocence " FRIAR. "How how? 'Tis a godly lord who giveth bounteously to Holy Church " BELTANE. "Who stealeth from the poor "
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