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Ch. XIX. COMPARISONS.
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
Ah ' hark, the satal followers do pursue ;
And I am faint and cannot fly their fury.
The sands are number’d that make up my life
Here musti stay, and here my life must end.
Third part Henry VI. aii i. fc. 6.
Far less is a man disposed to. Umiles who is not on-
ly defeated in a pitch’d battle, bullies at the point
of death mortally wounded:
Warwickmingled body fliows.
My blood, my want os strength, my lick heart Ihows,
That I must yield my body to the earth ,
And by my fall , the conquestto my soe.
Thus yields the cedar to the ax’s edge ,
Whose arms gave ssicker to the princely eagle ;
Under whose (hade the ramping lion ssept,
Whose top-branch overpeer’d Jove’s spreading tree,
And kept low Ihxubs from winter’s pow’rful wind.
Thircspart Henry VI. Gift b.fc, 2,
Queen Katharine, deserted by the King, and in the
deepeft affli&ion on her divorce, could not be dis-
posed to any Tallies of imagination : and for that
reason, the following simile however beautiful in
the mouth of a Ipeclatoi , is scarce proper in her
own :
/
I am the moll unhappy woman living ,
Shipwreck’d upon a kingdom, where no pity,
A a 4
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
Ah ' hark, the satal followers do pursue ;
And I am faint and cannot fly their fury.
The sands are number’d that make up my life
Here musti stay, and here my life must end.
Third part Henry VI. aii i. fc. 6.
Far less is a man disposed to. Umiles who is not on-
ly defeated in a pitch’d battle, bullies at the point
of death mortally wounded:
Warwickmingled body fliows.
My blood, my want os strength, my lick heart Ihows,
That I must yield my body to the earth ,
And by my fall , the conquestto my soe.
Thus yields the cedar to the ax’s edge ,
Whose arms gave ssicker to the princely eagle ;
Under whose (hade the ramping lion ssept,
Whose top-branch overpeer’d Jove’s spreading tree,
And kept low Ihxubs from winter’s pow’rful wind.
Thircspart Henry VI. Gift b.fc, 2,
Queen Katharine, deserted by the King, and in the
deepeft affli&ion on her divorce, could not be dis-
posed to any Tallies of imagination : and for that
reason, the following simile however beautiful in
the mouth of a Ipeclatoi , is scarce proper in her
own :
/
I am the moll unhappy woman living ,
Shipwreck’d upon a kingdom, where no pity,
A a 4