Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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page 76 of 333 (22%)
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To still the petty treason therewithin,
Her cap would brush his heels. STAFFORD. It is Sir Ralph, And muttering to himself as heretofore. Sir, see you aught up yonder? BAGENHALL. I miss something. The tree that only bears dead fruit is gone. STAFFORD. What tree, sir? BAGENHALL. Well, the tree in Virgil, sir, That bears not its own apples. STAFFORD. What! the gallows? BAGENHALL. Sir, this dead fruit was ripening overmuch, And had to be removed lest living Spain Should sicken at dead England. STAFFORD. Not so dead, But that a shock may rouse her. BAGENHALL. I believe Sir Thomas Stafford? STAFFORD. I am ill disguised. BAGENHALL. Well, are you not in peril here? |
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