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Title: The girlhood of Shakespeare's heroines in a series of tales
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: New York, A.C. Armstrong
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ween herlord and the rebel Macdonwald, whose traitor head is fixed upon theroyalist battlements. THE thanes daughter. 171 Close upon the heels of that messenger arrives another, who bringsword of the encounter at Fife, wherein the invading army of Sweno, theNorway king, is put to the rout and defeated, and the victory secured,by Macbeth, who is to be invested immediately with the forfeited titleand estates of the thane of Cawdor; he having disloyally fought beneaththe Norwegian banner. Scarcely has Lady Macbeth welcomed these tidings, when a letter isplaced in her hands by a trusty envoy from her lord, wherein she readswords of wondrous import, that kindle into flame the smouldering fireof her thought. Her self-communing upon this perusal, begins in these words ofapostrophe to her lord :— Glamis thou art^ and Cawdor; and shall heWhat thou art pramisd.^ -•-•-• But that our will become the servant to defect, the above should€ prologue to the swelling act of the imperial theme.
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TALE III. HEIENA; THE PHYSICIANS ORPHAN She derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness. Alls well that ends well. Well met! said the chevalier de Vaumond, to his friend, GautierGerard, as the two young men encountered each other in one of the prin-cipal streets of Perpignan, on a certain fine summer morning. Andpray whither may you be bound, my good fellow ? On some scheme ofpleasure, I trust. Do. for once in a way, consent to omit attendanceupon that very worthy, but unquestionably prosy Professor of yours,and leave him to lecture to the few steady stolidities, your brother-students, who may be absurd enough to hold it their duty not to playtruant, when such a morning as this bids them keep outside of Collegewalls. Gerard answered wth a smile. You will not call it a scheme of pleasure, perhaps, de Yaumond.Your taste has no relish for rural enjoyment. For my part, I long fora pure breeze, a stout walk, the broad expanse of sky, and the open,honest face of Nature. I have been study

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