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Page 62 - The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change ; but kept in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the vales, and every cottage-hearth ; The shepherd-lord was honoured more and more ; And, ages after he was laid in earth, " The good Lord Clifford
Page 53 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage, and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once 'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!
Page 94 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and