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  • [A short alarum; then enter the town with soldiers] O'ertake me, if thou canst; I scorn thy strength.

    The First Part of King Henry VI 1589

  • 'Would I might never O'ertake purfa'd Stsccefs, but I do feel,

    Works 1795

  • If e'er the dews of night ftiall fall, thou feed not The cup of wrath pour'd out, and triple woes O'ertake unheard-of crimes; call me falfe prophet.

    The Mysterious Mother 1791

  • * There is woven at Manchefter, for the Eaft-Ind! cis, a very thin ftuiF, of thread and cotton; which is cookr tlian the manufa Rough with the flings of froll, from his dark caves Afcends, and thither hades, ere winter's rage O'ertake his homeward flepj and they that dwelt Along the banks of Don's and Volga's ftreams;

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

  • Afcends, and thither haftes, ere winter's rage O'ertake his homeward ftep; and they that dweH Along the banks of Don's and Volga's ftreams;

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

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