Waverley Novels: Kenilworth

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Pàgina 40 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Pàgina 137 - Beyond the lake lay an extensive chase, full of red deer, fallow deer, roes, and every species of game, and abounding with lofty trees, from amongst which the extended front and massive towers of the Castle were seen to rise in majesty and beauty.
Pàgina 259 - ... of the Queen, carried apparently to its highest pitch during the interview of that morning ; from which most of them seemed to augur, that he might soon arise from their equal in rank to become their master. And now, while the subdued yet proud smile, with which he disclaimed those inferences, was yet curling his cheek, the Queen shot into the circle, her passions excited to the uttermost ; and, supporting with one hand, and apparently without an effort, the pale and sinking form of his almost...
Pàgina 55 - When she smiled, it was a pure sunshine, that every one did choose to bask in, if they could ; but anon came a storm, from a sudden gathering of clouds, and the thunder fell, in a wondrous manner, on all alike.
Pàgina 66 - is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this lonely grove, Immured in shameful privity? " No more thou com'st with lover's speed, Thy once beloved bride to see; But be she alive, or be she dead, I fear, stern Earl, 's the same to thee.
Pàgina 55 - Her mind was ofttime like the gentle air that cometh from the westerly point in a summer's morn, — 'twas sweet and refreshing to all around her. Her speech did win all affections, and her subjects did try to show all love to her commands, for she would say, ' her state did require her to command what she knew her people would willingly do, from their own love to her.

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