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Page 66 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
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| Title | Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II]. Volume 1 of Elements of Criticism, Lord Henry Home Kames Volume 1 of Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II], Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Author | Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh., 1765 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2007 |
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