[England’s Antiphon by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookEngland’s Antiphon CHAPTER XXIII 6/16
"For I know not whither I must go, nor how long here I dwell." I think _y_ is omitted by mistake before _duelle_. [13] This is very poor compared with the original. [14] I owe almost all my information on the history of these plays to Mr. Collier's well-known work on English Dramatic Poetry. [15] _Able to suffer_, deserving, subject to, obnoxious to, liable to death and vengeance. [16] The word _harry_ is still used in Scotland, but only in regard to a bird's nest. [17] Do-well, Do-better, and Do-best. [18] Complexion. [19] Ruddiness--complexion. [20] Twig. [21] Life ( ?) .-- I think _she_ should be _he_. [22] Field. [23] "Carry you beyond this region." [24] For the knowledge of this poem I am indebted to the Early English Text Society, now printing so many valuable manuscripts. [25] The _for_ here is only an intensive. [26] _Pref_ is _proof_.
_Put in pref_ seems to stand for something more than _being tested_.
Might it not mean _proved to be a pearl of price ?_ [27] A word acknowledged to be obscure.
Mr.Morris suggests _on the left hand_, as unbelieved. [28] "Except that which his sole wit may judge." [29] "Be equal to thy possessions:" "fit thy desires to thy means." [30] "Ambition has uncertainty." We use the word _ticklish_ still. [31] "Is mingled everywhere." [32] To relish, to like.
"Desire no more than is fitting for thee." [33] For. [34] "Let thy spiritual and not thine animal nature guide thee." [35] "And I dare not falsely judge the reverse." [36] A poem so like this that it may have been written immediately after reading it, is attributed to Robert Henryson, the Scotch poet.
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