 Thirteen years your Highness' servant, but yet nothing. Twenty friends that though they say they will be sure I find them sure to be slow. A thousand hopes but all nothing ; a hundred promises but yet nothing. Thus casting up the inventory of my friends,...  Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England - Page 28by Derek B. Alwes - 2004 - 197 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Robert Dodsley - English drama - 1825 - 426 pages
...twenty freinds, that though they saye theye will be sure, I finde them sure to be slowe ; a thowsand hopes, but all nothing ; a hundred promises but yet nothing. Thus casting upp the inven-tary of my freinds, hopes, promises, and t \ mes, the summa totalis amounteth to just... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist - English drama - 1825 - 422 pages
...twenty freinds, that though they saye theye will be sure, I finde them sure to be slowe ; a thowsand hopes, but all nothing ; a hundred promises but yet nothing. Thus casting upp the inven-tary of my freinds, hopes, promises, and t_\mes, the summa totalis amounteth to just... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 600 pages
...nothing. Twenty freinds that though they say they wilbo sure, I find them sure to be slowc. A thowsand hopes but all nothing ; a hundred promises but yet nothing. Thus casting upp the Inventary of my freindes, hopes, promises, and tymes, the summa totalis amounteth to iust nothing.... | |
 | John Lyly, Frederick William Fairholt - 1858 - 378 pages
...Twenty freinds, that though they saye theye will be sure, I finde them sure to be slowe. A thowsand hopes, but all nothing ; a hundred promises, but yet nothing. Thus casting upp the inventary of my friends, hopes, promises, and tymes, the summa totalis amounteth to just nothing.... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...he thus described the issue in a letter to the Queen : " Thirteen years your Highness's servant, but yet nothing : twenty friends that, though they say...the inventory of my friends, hopes, promises, and times, the summa totalis amounteth to just nothing. My last will is shorter than mine inventory ; but... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 pages
...the year when ' Euphues ' was published, " thirteen years your Highness's servant, but yet nothing A thousand hopes, but all nothing ; a hundred promises, but yet nothing My last will is shorter than mine invention ; but three legacies, patience to my creditors, melancholy... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...but yet nothing ; twenty freinds that though they saye they wil be sure I find them sure to be slowe. A thousand hopes, but all nothing ; a hundred promises, but yet nothing. Thus casting vpp the inventory of my freinds, hopes, promises, and tymes, the summa totalis amounteth to iust nothing.... | |
 | Julius Leopold Klein - Drama - 1876 - 910 pages
...in runder Summe — nichts." („Thirteene yere your highnes servant, but yet nothing ... A thowsand hopes, but all nothing; a hundred promises, but yet nothing. Thus casting upp the inventary of my friends, hopes, promises and tymes, the summa totalis amoanth to just nothing.... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - English language - 1878 - 522 pages
...nothing; twenty freinds [have I] that, though they saye they wil be sure, I find them sure to be slowe. A thousand hopes, but all nothing ; a hundred promises, but yet nothing. Thus, casting upp the inventory of my freinds, hopes, Eromises, and tymes, the summa totalis amounteth to just nothing.... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 708 pages
...but yet nothing; twenty freinds that though they save they wil be sure, I find them sure to be slowe. A thousand hopes, but all nothing ; a hundred promises, but yet nothing. Thus casting vpp the inventory of my freinds, hopes, promises, and tymes, the summa totalis amountelh to iust nothing.... | |
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