Versos English George Crabbe _Edward Shore._

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_Edward Shore._

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Seem they grave or learned? Why, so didst thou [. . . . . . . . . . . .] seem they religious? Why, so didst thou; or are they spare in diet, Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, Garnish’d and deck’d in modest compliment, Not working with the eye without the ear, And but [in] purged judgment trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. Henry V. Act II. Scene 2.

Better I were distract: So should my thoughts be sever’d from my griefs, And woes by strong imagination lose The knowledge of themselves. Lear, Act IV. Scene 6.

TALE XI.