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The executions were few , and Southampton , who in any other reign would have died , was spared . Blount on the scaffold had the grace to ask : ' Is Sir Walter Ralegh here ? ' ; and when Ralegh , officially present as Captain ...
The executions were few , and Southampton , who in any other reign would have died , was spared . Blount on the scaffold had the grace to ask : ' Is Sir Walter Ralegh here ? ' ; and when Ralegh , officially present as Captain ...
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Then , indeed , on the twelfth day of illness , the cordial was brought , and forced between the dying man's lips ... to ' countermine his underminers ' , he died suddenly in an inn at Marlborough ; and his friend Richard Sackville ...
Then , indeed , on the twelfth day of illness , the cordial was brought , and forced between the dying man's lips ... to ' countermine his underminers ' , he died suddenly in an inn at Marlborough ; and his friend Richard Sackville ...
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But sure thou died'st , and quit d'st the state Of Flesh and Blood , before that Fate ! Else what a Miracle were wrought , To triumph both in Flesh and Thought ! I saw in every Stander - by Pale Death , Life only in thy Eye . Farewell !
But sure thou died'st , and quit d'st the state Of Flesh and Blood , before that Fate ! Else what a Miracle were wrought , To triumph both in Flesh and Thought ! I saw in every Stander - by Pale Death , Life only in thy Eye . Farewell !
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 818868130X, 9788188681303 |
| Length | 387 pages |
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