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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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32 ROGER ASCHAM

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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hi. I see well it is no mervell that so many bowes bebroken. Tox. Bowes be broken twice as many wayes besyde these.But agayne in stringynge youre bowe, you must looke formuche bende or lytle bende, for they be cleane contrarye. The lytle bende hath but one commoditie, whyche is inshootyng faster and farther shoote, and ye cause therof is,bycause the strynge hath so far a passage, or it parte wyththe shafte. The greate bende hath many commodities: forit maketh easyer shootynge the bowe beyng halfe drawenafore. It needeth no bracer, for the strynge stoppeth be-fore it come at the arme. It wyl not so soone hit a mannessieve or other geare, by the same reason : It hurteth not theshaft fether, as the lowe bende doeth. It suffereth a manbetter to espye his marke. Therfore lette youre bowe havegood byg bend, a shaftemente and. ii. fjrngers at the least,for these which I have spoken of. Phi. The bracer, glove, and strjmge, be done, nowe youmuste come to the bowe, the chefe instrument of all.
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