 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 sidor
...Against themselves their witnesses will swear Till, viper-like, their mother-plot they tear, And suck for nutriment that bloody gore Which was their principle...their Beelzebub will fight ; Thus on my foes my foes shall do me right. Nor doubt the event ; for factious crowds engage In their first onset all their... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 sidor
...themselves their witnesses will swear 1012 Till, viper-like, their mother-plot they tear, And suck ermeil roses, To decke their bridegromes posies Against the brydale day, which was not long: ¡s Sweete lord Thus on my foes my foes shall do me right. Nor doubt the event; for factious crowds engage In... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 sidor
...Against themselves their witnesses will swear " Till, viper-like, their mother-plot they tear, " And suck for nutriment that bloody gore " Which was their principle...their Beelzebub will fight ; " Thus on my foes my foes shall do me right. " Nor doubt the event ; for factious crowds engage " In their first onset all their... | |
 | Joseph Wells - 1923 - 248 sidor
...he says of the witnesses in the Popish plot that ' Viper like, their mother plot they tear And suck for nutriment that bloody gore Which was their principle of life before.' So good a literary man as Dryden no doubt quotes Herodotus elsewhere, but I have not noted any further... | |
 | Susan C. Greenfield - 1999 - 290 sidor
...Against themselves their Witnesses will Swear, Till Viper-like their Mother Plot they tear: And suck for Nutriment that bloody gore Which was their Principle of Life before. (1010-15) Originally unrelated to the rebel son, the mother here becomes the plot against the king,... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 sidor
...Against themselves their witnesses will swear, Till viper-like their mother plot they tear,* And suck for nutriment that bloody gore Which was their principle of life before. Their Belial with their Belzebub will fight, Thus on my foes my foes shall do me right. Nor doubt th' event, for factious crowds... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 sidor
...Against themselves their witnesses will swear, Till viper-like their mother Plot they tear; And suck for nutriment that bloody gore, Which was their principle of life before. Their Belial with their Belzebub will fight; Thus on my foes, my foes shall do me right. Nor doubt the event; for factious... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 sidor
...will swear, Till viper-like their mother plot they tear And suck for nutriment that bloody gore 1015 Which was their principle of life before. Their Belial...their Beelzebub will fight; Thus on my foes, my foes shall do me right; Nor doubt th' event, for factious crowds engage In their first onset all their brutal... | |
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... content to look on grace, Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye To tempt the terror of her front, and die. By their own arts 'tis righteously decreed... 
