Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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Page 73
... Wildrake , as I guess ? ' said Everard . The same - Gentleman of Squattlesea - mere , in the moist county of Lincoln . ' ' Wildrake ! ' said Markham - Wildgoose you should WOODSTOCK . 73.
... Wildrake , as I guess ? ' said Everard . The same - Gentleman of Squattlesea - mere , in the moist county of Lincoln . ' ' Wildrake ! ' said Markham - Wildgoose you should WOODSTOCK . 73.
Page 74
... Wildrake ! ' said Markham - Wildgoose you should be called . You have been moistening your own throat to some purpose , and using it to gabble tunes very suiting to the times , to be sure ! ' ' Faith , the tune's a pretty tune enough ...
... Wildrake ! ' said Markham - Wildgoose you should be called . You have been moistening your own throat to some purpose , and using it to gabble tunes very suiting to the times , to be sure ! ' ' Faith , the tune's a pretty tune enough ...
Page 75
... Wildrake , ' said Markham - You hold me , I am sure , for your friend ? ' C True as steel . - Chums at college and at Lincoln's- Inn - we have been Nisus and Euryalus , Theseus and Perithous , Orestes and Pylades ; and , to sum up the ...
... Wildrake , ' said Markham - You hold me , I am sure , for your friend ? ' C True as steel . - Chums at college and at Lincoln's- Inn - we have been Nisus and Euryalus , Theseus and Perithous , Orestes and Pylades ; and , to sum up the ...
Page 76
... Wildrake . ' But , oddsfish ! is it necessary I should always be re- minding you , that our obligation of mutual protection , our league of offensive and defensive , as I may call it , was to be carried into effect without reference to ...
... Wildrake . ' But , oddsfish ! is it necessary I should always be re- minding you , that our obligation of mutual protection , our league of offensive and defensive , as I may call it , was to be carried into effect without reference to ...
Page 77
... Wildrake , I thought you asked me in your own person . - Lack - a - day ! a great mercy - a glorifying mercy - a crowning mercy - a vouchsafing an uplifting - I profess the malignants are scattered from Dan to Beersheba - smitten , hip ...
... Wildrake , I thought you asked me in your own person . - Lack - a - day ! a great mercy - a glorifying mercy - a crowning mercy - a vouchsafing an uplifting - I profess the malignants are scattered from Dan to Beersheba - smitten , hip ...
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