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Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her !...

Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in progress to which ... - Page 220
by Robert Deverell - 1813
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The Scold's Bridle: A Novel

Minette Walters - Fiction - 2007 - 374 pages

...sharp metal gag or bit which entered the mouth and restrained the tongue. —Oxford English Dictionary Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be...torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter...

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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 184 pages

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John A. Joyce - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 300 pages

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