This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ...under your wings of war, I give you welcome with a powerless hand, But with a heart full of unstained love: Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke. Lewis. A noble boy! Who would not do thee right! Aujl. To guard against the too great crowding of an edition with engravings, we must pass over the spirited ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ...under your wings of war, I give you welcome with a powerless hand, But with a heart full of unstained love: Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke. Lewis. A noble boy! Who would not do thee right! Aujl. To guard against the too great crowding of an edition with engravings, we must pass over the spirited answer of John to Cbatillion, in p. 5--an answer, which every Briton reads with transport. And for the same reason, we must overlook Queen Eleanor's mention of the ambitious Constance in the same page, as well as that passage in p. 21, where the Lady Fakonbridge discovers to tlie Bastard, that Caur-de-iion was his father. Aust. Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, As seal to this indenture of my love; That to my home I will no more return, 'Till Angiers, and the right thou hast in France, Together with that pale, that white-fac'd more, Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides, And coops from other lands her islanders; Even 'till that England hedg'd in with the main, That water-walled bulwark, still secure And confident from foreign purposes; Even 'till that utmost corner of the west, Salute thee for her king: 'till then, fair boy, Will I not think of home, but follow arms. Const. O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks!--From the eighth line might be drawn this scene; which lies before the walls of Angiers. Lewis the young Dauphin, might be taking Arthur kindly by the hand, which will admit of the attitude of Lewis being drawn with much grace. The Arch-duke of Austria, and King Philip, may be gazing 611 Arthur, with generous attachment, and with nearly as Shakespeare omits no opportunity of celebrating his country. He has given further instances of his attachment to this pale and white-sac dshore, in many other parts of this...
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