The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
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page 95 of 249 (38%)
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I'll go to them myself.
Isen. What now? start forth In this most bitter frost, so thinly clad? Eliz. Tut, tut, I wear my working dress to-day, And those who work, robe lightly-- Isen. Nay, my child, For once keep up your rank. Eliz. Then I had best Roll to their door in lacqueyed equipage, And dole my halfpence from my satin purse-- I am their sister--I must look like one. I am their queen--I'll prove myself the greatest By being the minister of all. So come-- Now to my pastime, [aside] And in happy toil Forget this whirl of doubt--We are weak, we are weak, Only when still: put thou thine hand to the plough, The spirit drives thee on. Isen. You live too fast! Eliz. Too fast? We live too slow--our gummy blood Without fresh purging airs from heaven, would choke Slower and slower, till it stopped and froze. God! fight we not within a cursed world, Whose very air teems thick with leagued fiends-- Each word we speak has infinite effects-- |
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