Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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Envy the great, nor do the low despise.
792 SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? 793 _Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion._ =Gentleness.= What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness. 794 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 7. =Ghosts.= Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, Which thou dost glare with! 795 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4. Many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night; They have driven sleep from mine eyes away. |
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