"Assoil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is still more repulsive. She tells us, in the prologue to her story, that she has buried five husbands, and, buxom still, is looking for the sixth. She is a jolly compagnon de voyage, had been thrice to Jerusalem, and is now seeking assoil for some little sins at Canterbury. And the host's wife, as he describes her, is not by any means a pleasant helpmeet for an honest man. The host is out of her hearing, or he would not be so ready to tell ...
— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee
... Rome, When reverend duty droopeth through disgrace? O countrymen, what shall become of Rome, When woful nature, widow of her joys, Weeps on our walls to see her laws depress'd? O Romans, hath not Anthony's discourse Seal'd up the mouths of false seditious men, Assoil'd[145] the doubts and quaint controls of power, Relieved the mournful matron with his pleas? And will you seek to murder Anthony? The lions brook with kindness their relief; The sheep reward the shepherd with their fleece; Yet Romans seek to ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various |
