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Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cenci Scene 4.4:

by Percy Bysshe Shelley SCENE 4.3: Act 5 SCENE 4.4: ANOTHER APARTMENT IN THE CASTLE. ENTER ON ONE SIDE THE LEGATE SAVELLA, INTRODUCED BY A SERVANT, AND ON THE OTHER LUCRETIA AND BERNARDO…

A. E. Housman: When I was one-and-twenty

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-…

William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act III, Scene II

Scene IIEphesus. A room in Cerimon's houseEnter Cerimon, with a Servant, and some Persons who have been shipwreckedCerimonPhilemon, ho!Enter PhilemonPhilemonDoth my lord call?CerimonGet fire…

Brewer's: Buttons

The two buttons on the back of a coat, in the fall of the back, are a survival of the buttons on the back of riding-coats and military frocks of the eighteenth century, occasionally used…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CXIV

Sonnet CXIII Sonnet CXV CXIV Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you, Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery? Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true, And that your…

John Donne: Break of Day

Break of Day[Another of the Same]'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O, wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because 'twas night? Love…