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The guests are met, the feast is set: may'st hear the merry din - and the celebrated performance of the stage adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner began.
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Pay to the laws of society what retribution they require for their violation – and if suffering should lead to contrition, and seclusion from the world bring thee back to rectitude, then thou may'st find again thy father
Camilla 2008
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Why so eager for the flowing spring, when hard by these towers stands a hill well watered, whence thou may'st freely draw?
Hippolytus 2008
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Mistress, thou may'st condemn the mischief I have done, for sorrow's sting o'ermasters thy judgment; yet can I answer thee in face of this, if thou wilt hear.
Hippolytus 2008
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Why so eager for the flowing spring, when hard by these towers stands a hill well watered, whence thou may'st freely draw?
Hippolytus 2008
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Mistress, thou may'st condemn the mischief I have done, for sorrow's sting o'ermasters thy judgment; yet can I answer thee in face of this, if thou wilt hear.
Hippolytus 2008
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Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse
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They will return across the lake, scale the cliffs there and pursue thee, but thou may'st escape them if thou be'st swift.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Then, when thou know'st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may'st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first.
The Annotated Wheel Robert Hunter 2005
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Des, I find it hard to accept George Henry Needler as a purveyor of actual English when he turns out lines like: "Me may'st thou gladly welcome / with messengers high meed."
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