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England’s Antiphon

CHAPTER XXIII
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"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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