The fate that made you Scotsman by birth, gave you head, and heart, and hand, to uphold the name as it must needs be upheld.
Thanks, I must needs say, to the persecution of your marauding barons, and of your latitudinarian clergy.
That is me loath, said the knight, but sith I must needs, I will dress me thereto.
God thank your highness, said Balin, your bounty and highness may no man praise half to the value; but at this time I must needs depart, beseeching you alway of your good grace.
I may not tarry, said Sir Tor, for I am in a quest that I must needs follow.
Reading it with the eyes of fifty-four, I must needs laugh.
Yet not for a moment have I been dull or idle, and now, by the latter end of a sea-coal fire, I feel such enjoyment of my ease and tranquillity that I must needs word it before going up to bed.
If it make a noise, he bites it with blasphemous mouth; insomuch that it must needs die at last in the net, if the Lord Jesus help not.
Now these Pilgrims, as I said, must needs go through this fair.
But it must needs be a comfort to him, that they got not this jewel from him.
Now to be put out of such a Family into a bad, a wicked one, as Mr. Badman was, must needs be in Judgment, and a sign of the anger of God.
For if the thought of foolishness is sin, {91a} doubtless the desire of foolishness is more sin: and if the desire be more, the endeavour after it must needs be more and more.
But certainly the holiness of God, and also the pollution of themselves by sin, must needs be very far out of the minds of such people, what profession soever they make.
Thou hast cast thy love upon one who will be true to thee, whatsoever may befall; yet is she a guileful creature, and might not help it her life long, and now for thy very sake must needs be more guileful now than ever before.
Long worke it were, Here to account the endlesse progenie 8 Of all the weedes, that bud and blossome there; But so much as doth need, must needs be counted here.
Ten thousand pardons that I come unannounced before you--unwelcome I must needs be, unworthy of your clemency--since we parted unhappily.
He must needs lie, for he speaks to the dishonour of my noble lord; he must needs lie doubly, for he speaks to gain ends of his own, equally execrable and unattainable.
And as to the saints, their guesses, as to the time of her ruin, must needs be conjectural and uncertain.
Wherefore it must needs be, that he be brought to judgment, that the truth of his saying may be proved.
So then, it must needs be, that what next befalls this common person, it befalls him with respect to them in whose room and place he stood and suffered.
But this I say, he must needs be a tuneable man, that shall be able in those days to sing this song to himself at all seasons: for this is to drive reason backward, and to set the cart before the horse.
And therefore, lady, sithen ye have taken you to perfection, I must needs take me unto perfection of right.
If men wish to visit them, it must needs be in their bedrooms, on the street, or in some questionable resort.
He knew that in order to do what he had in mind, he would have to reckon with the habits and traditions of centuries, but, seeing clearly the task before him he must needs become an iconoclast and accept the consequences.
He accepted the offers not alone because he must needs do something for a livelihood, but largely for the good he thought he might do the cause to which he was enlisted.
Commend me to a crossbow and a well-victualled castle, if I must needs fight at all.
But if you call on me to march from hence, leaving the same castle defenceless, and to offer up my life in a battle which you acknowledge to be desperate, I must needs say my tenure binds me not to obey thee.
I am not, like other men, to envy or undervalue the talents I cannot reach, for which reason I must needs bear a true honour to this large eminent sect of our British writers.
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