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" His mother was a votaress of my order : And, in the spiced Indian air, by night, Full often hath she gossip'd by my side, And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Marking the embarked traders on the flood, When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive... "
Attending to Women in Early Modern England - Page 161
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Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...sands, Marking the embarked traders on the flood ; When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive, 130 And grow big-bellied, with the wanton wind : Which she, with pretty and with swimming gate (Following her womb then rich with my young 'squire), Would imitate ; and sail upon the land,...
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1798 - 472 pages
...swimming step and prominent belly bring the whole figure before our eyes with the distinctness of reality. When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive, And...wanton wind ; Which she with pretty and with swimming gate, Following her womb, (then rich with my young squire,) Would imitate, and sail upon the land....
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The Beauties of Wiltshire: Displayed in Statistical, Historical ..., Volume 1

John Britton - England - 1801 - 384 pages
...with me on Neptune's yellow sands ; Marking the embarked traders on the flood ; When we have laughed to see the sails conceive, And grow big-bellied with...; Which she, with pretty, and with swimming gait, a 4 Would Would imitate ; and sail upon the sand, To fetch me trifles, and return again ; As from a...
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The Shipwreck: A Poem

William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - Shipwrecks - 1804 - 292 pages
...our immortal Bard, describes the same effect, though not with equal force : " When we have laughed to see the Sails conceive, And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind." (Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2.) One of the finest Pictures ever painted by my kind friend ROMNEY,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...Which ever in the haunch of winter sing» " The lifting up of day." Steevens, Marking the embarked traders on the flood ; When we have laugh'd to see...conceive, And grow big-bellied, with the wanton wind : 3 Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait, (Following her womb, then rich with my young 'squire)4...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 384 pages
...some support from the following passage in King Henry IV, P. II, Act IV, sc. iv: Marking the embarked traders on the flood; When we have laugh'd to see...conceive, And grow big-bellied, with the wanton wind : 3 Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait, (Following her womb, then rich with my young 'squire)4...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...emharked traders on the flood ; When we have langh'd to see the sails conceive, And grow hig-hellied, with the wanton wind: Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait {Following her womh, then rich with my young '*quirt), Would imitate ; and sail upon the land. To fetch me trifles,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 pages
...often hath she gossip'd by my side : And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Marking the embarked traders on the flood ; When we have laugh'd to see...conceive, And grow big-bellied, with the wanton wind 6 ; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait, (Following, her womb, then rich with my young 'squire...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...often hath she gossip'd by my side, And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Marking the embarked should take joy To see her in yonr arms. Leon. My...true Paulina, We shall not marry, till thou bidd'st herwomb, then rich with myyouug squire, Would imitate; and sail upon the land, To fetch ine triiles,...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...yellow sands, ' Marking the embarked traders on the flood ; When we have lauçh'd to see t he e ai Is conceive, And grow big-bellied, with the wanton wind: Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait, [Squire,) (Following her womb, then rich with my young U diilil imitate; and sail upon the land, To...
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