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... tell the other travellers a story . This is probably because he ranks highest among the clergy present . But the Miller inter- venes ' in Pilate's voice ' and proposes a noble tale ' which , even at this point , one can infer will ...
... tell the other travellers a story . This is probably because he ranks highest among the clergy present . But the Miller inter- venes ' in Pilate's voice ' and proposes a noble tale ' which , even at this point , one can infer will ...
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... Tell zeal it wants devotion , tell love it is but lust , Tell time it metes but motion , tell flesh it is but dust . And wish them not reply for thou must give the lie . The poem ends with a dramatic reversal : although the soul's ...
... Tell zeal it wants devotion , tell love it is but lust , Tell time it metes but motion , tell flesh it is but dust . And wish them not reply for thou must give the lie . The poem ends with a dramatic reversal : although the soul's ...
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... tell me , that I suffered much by the backwardness I have shown in this Bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford , against whom I had been formerly so keen and so active . Mr Speaker , I beg of you and the rest but a suspension of ...
... tell me , that I suffered much by the backwardness I have shown in this Bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford , against whom I had been formerly so keen and so active . Mr Speaker , I beg of you and the rest but a suspension of ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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