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ENG 204 Lecture Notes - Hypermedia, Hypertext, Plautus

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U of S
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English
Course
ENG 204
Professor
Alison Muri

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Ample: of a writing or speech: treating of matters at full length; copious. Suffrage: all man"s opinions, everyone on the same page. Were not the paths i meant vnto thy praise: To the memory of my beloued, the avthor. Mr. william shakespeare : and what he hath left vs. O draw no enuy (shakespeare) on thy name, Am i thus ample to thy booke, and fame while i confesse thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too tis true, and all men"s suffrage. Were not the paths i meant vnto thy praise : Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho"s right ; The truth, but gropes, and vrgeth all by chance ; And thinke to ruine, where it seem"d to raise. These are, as some infamous baud, or whore, But thou art proofe against them, and indeed. Aboue th" ill fortune of them, or the need.

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