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Would'st thou the god of those white flowers repay? then purity need'st thou observe.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Would'st voyage forth from Lemnos with thy friend.
The Seven Plays in English Verse 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles
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Would'st thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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Would'st thou exchange the latter for all earth's gaud and glare?
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Would'st grab all things, at which thy Past-eyes gaped.
Freedom, Truth and Beauty Edward Doyle
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_ -- Would'st thou recognise him again if he returned?
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Would'st thou lay on such cost, toile, spend thy spirits?
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Would'st lay thy beauty 'neath the yoke – would'st be a fisher's mate?
Fires of Driftwood 1922
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I saw her meaning, and I said, "Would'st thou have me put the clothing over which I have wept, and that is now carefully laid away in the camphor-wood box, upon this child?"
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard Elizabeth Cooper 1911
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"Would'st thou know, fair reader (if of the adorable female sex)" to the official severity with which he takes the chambermaid down, "as many pegs as is desirable for the future comfort of all parties."
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905
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