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Pleafe it your honours To call me to your fenate, I'll deliver Myfelf your loyal fervant, or endure Your heavieft cenfure.
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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And dofl; in murders, rapes, and fpoils delight j Pleafe not thyfelf, the flattering crowd to hear;
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Pleafe to read that, and then fay, if 'tis poffible for us to be more wretched.
The miscellaneous works of Richard Linnecar, of Wakefield 1789
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Pleafe to take the advice you give me on this fubjedt, and keep your converfation out of the difpute.
The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele ... 1787
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Pleafe to give the infcriptions and arms, if any, on the fame, if worthy of notice, efpecially if before the 1 6th century.
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Pleafe you to walk Three or four turns, but till his back beturu'd,,
Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays... 1780
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Here's a gentlewoman (an't Pleafe your honour) one of your tenants,
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Pleafe to attend to what I, and the public in my opinion, expert from you as a dramatic writer.
The Works of Horace 1780
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Pleafe your Honour, faid an elderly man, iny matter's firft lady died in child - birth, and her infant penfhed with her*
The Fool of Quality; Or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. 1770
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Party to follow me; And fohas every other, if he were my Foot-man, or a Maffanelloy who can do the fame; Whether is more Honourable, or more Slavijb, to fubmit Tamely under fuch an One, or, which is worfe, a Mobb of them; without any Rules of Lan, or Conftitutjon, but what they Pleafe to Call fo \
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