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" t be possible — of blood : Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul ; acknowledge what thou art, A wretch, a worm, a nothing ; weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night ; For seven days... "
The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie - Page 126
by Eton miscellany - 1827
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Sidelights on Elizabethan Drama: A Series of Studies Dealing with the ...

Henry Dugdale Sykes - Authorship, Disputed - 1924 - 248 pages
...that recalls the language of the Friar's exhortation to Giovanni in the first scene of 'Tis Pity : Wash every word thou utter'st In tears (and if 't...to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul. The scene ends with the double-rimed couplet already referred to : My shame may live without me But...
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The Modern Language Review, Volume 19

John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1924 - 556 pages
...recalls the language of the Friar's exhortation to Giovanni in the first scene of 'Tis Pity : Weak every word thou utter'st In tears (and if "t be possible)...to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul. The scene ends with the double-rhymed couplet already referred to : My shame may live without me But...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford - Drama - 1966 - 136 pages
...FRIAR. Hie to thy father's house, there lock thee fast Alone within thy chamber, then fall down 70 On both thy knees, and grovel on the ground: Cry to...heart, wash every word thou utter'st In tears, and (if't be possible) of blood: Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul, acknowledge...
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The Selected Plays of John Ford: The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore ...

John Ford - Literary Collections - 1986 - 392 pages
...FRIAR. Hie to thy father's house. There lock thee fast Alone within thy chamber, then fall down 70 On both thy knees, and grovel on the ground; Cry to...heart, wash every word thou utter'st In tears, and, ift be possible, of blood; Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul; acknowledge...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford - Drama - 1997 - 134 pages
...Friar. Hie to thy father's house, there lock thee fast Alone within thy chamber, then fall down 70 On both thy knees, and grovel on the ground; Cry to...lust That rots thy soul; acknowledge what thou art, 75 46. confessor] stressed on the first syllable. 49. Bononia] Bologna. 51. government] discretion....
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays

John Ford - Incest - 1998 - 420 pages
...life. FRIAR Hie to thy father's house, there lock thee fast Alone within thy chamber, then fall down 70 On both thy knees, and grovel on the ground. Cry to...thou utter'st In tears (and if 't be possible) of blood:0 Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul. Acknowledge what thou art, 75...
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The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds - English drama - 2003 - 492 pages
...life. FRIAR Hie to thy father's house, there lock thee fast Alone within thy chamber, then fall down 70 On both thy knees, and grovel on the ground: Cry to...wretch, a worm, a nothing: weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night. For seven days' space do this, then if thou find'st No change in...
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The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds - English drama - 2003 - 492 pages
...Hie to thy father's house, there lock thee fast Alone within thy chamher, then fall down 70 On hoth thy knees, and grovel on the ground: Cry to thy heart, wash every word thou utter'st In tears (and if t he possihlel of hlood: Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul, acknowledge what...
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The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds - Drama - 2003 - 484 pages
...the ground: Cry to thy heart, wash every word thou utter'st In tears (and if t he possihle) of hlood: Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul, acknowledge what thou an, A wretch, a worm, a nothing: weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night. For...
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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

Bryon Lee Grigsby - Diseases - 2004 - 228 pages
...death waits on thy lust" (I. 60-62). The Friar's counsel to Giovanni is to be penitent and on his knees "beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust / That rots thy soul" (74-75). On one level, the Friar's statement is metaphorical and connects the state of the soul to...
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