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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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Lan. In no respect can contraries be true.

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Christopher Marlowe·1564–1593·English Renaissance theatre
ueen. Yet, good my lord, hear what he can allege. War. All that he speaks is nothing, we are resolved. Y. Mor. Do you not wish that Gaveston weredead? 229. *a3 has the sense of poets as well as prose-writers* that J a construction common 242. question is trisyllabic enough in Marlowe (see e. g. here ; see n. on v. 152. below V. 262. 360. Jew of 247. 't was good, if it was Malta II 2, III 1) and indeed good. (It seems, however, in all the early writers, in- advisable to read lua^'t.) eluding Shakespeare; M. m 250. respect, consideration. 4S4 quotes instances even He means, observe the rea- from Goldsmith and Robert- sons given by Mortimer for son ; but at the present day his change of mind, this has become a decided 253. is nothing, is of no use vulgarism and is avoided by or importance.