John William Godward paintings
John William Waterhouse paintings
Flower of warriors,How is’t with Titus Lartius?Marcius. As with a man busied about decrees,Condemning some to death and some to exile,Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other. &150;Coriolanus.–
The captive Abbot’s features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery, and bodily terror.
“Why, how now, my masters?” said he, with a voice in which all three emotions were blended. “What order is this among ye? Be ye Turks or Christians, that handle a churchman?—Know ye what it is manus imponere in servos Domini? Ye have plundered my mails—torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal!— Another in my place would have been at his excommunicabo vos but I am placable, and if ye order forth my pallreys, release my brethren, and restore my mails, tell down with all speed a hundred crowns to be expended in masses at the high altar of Jorvaulx Abbey, and make your vow to eat no venison until next Pentecost, it may be you shall hear little more of this made frolic.”
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