No, ye cannot, You never travel'd that way yet: pray pardon me, I prate so boldly to you.
Your Graces pardon: when we get a cup, Sir, We old men prate a pace.
And if thou prate of Mountaines; let them throw Millions of Akers on vs; till our ground Sindging his pate against the burning Zone, Make Ossa like a wart.
If I talke to him, with his innocent prate He will awake my mercie, which lies dead: Therefore I will be sodaine, and dispatch Ar.
I am i' th' way to study a long silence: To pratewere idle.
This follows: The hand must act to drown the passionate tongue, I scorn to wear a sword and prate of wrong.
There are men, though not many, and these, perhaps, the least inclined to prate about it, who have one attachment in their lives to which every other sentiment is but an accessory and a satellite.
How can I prate of my cut finger in presence of your broken leg?
How pleased is every paltry elf To prate about that thing, himself!
This house youprate of in Blois, for instance, and the room with the two doors?
Yet this project comes from men who prate about the 'spirit of the institutions,' which they clearly understand to be their own spirit, let that be what it may.
It may do for one class of political economists to prate about a state of things which supposes every husbandman a freeholder, and rich enough to maintain his level among the other freeholders of the State.
There is nothing forgotten, for the facts were probably never known to those who prate about the conquered rights from the crown.
But I heard the serving-fellows prate of what they had seen and heard; and though their tales were confused enough, yet if there was any truth among them at all, I should say the devil must have been in the dance.
Now darest thou prate of right and wrong, not having wit to keep thee from running thy head against a post!
What right has his bastard to prate of the honour of his family?
Aside] If I talk to him, with his innocent prate He will awake my mercy, which lies dead; Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch.
This same starv'd justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street; and every third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute.
And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart!
There's no man in the world More bound to's mother, yet here he lets me prate Like one i' th' stocks.
There be that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate As amply and unnecessarily As this Gonzalo; I myself could make A chough of as deep chat.
Livy noteth, that soldiers that prate and brag much, seldom fight well; and Erasmus noteth, that children that quickly learn to speak are long in learning to go.
Christ, and of eternal happiness, than to prate a deal of idle nonsense in an alehouse?
We call this a narrow life, prate in the North of our sympathy with the universal man, don't we?
Ill it beseems, that such an one as thou Should lift thy voice against the Kings, and rail With scurril ribaldry, and prate of home.
Then cease we now, like babbling fools, to prate Here in the centre of the coming fight.
Really, my husband, it becomes you well to prate of confidence and affection, who have ceased to think of your own wife, and have eyes alone for the wife of another!
You taught me the art of lying and deceiving, and now you prate to me of a heart!
They are directly under the Conduct of their Whisperer; and think they are in a State of Freedom, while they can prate with one of these Attendants of all Men in general, and still avoid the Man they most like.
The Wise are content to guide the Springs in Silence, and rejoice in Secret at their regular Progress: To prate and triumph is the Part allotted to the Trifling and Superficial: The Geese were providentially ordained to save the Capitol.
I would not come openly, because I know he loves mystery in all things, and likes not that the world should be able to prate of his interviews.
Neither shalt thou prate even to thy own heart of 'those secrets known to all.
There is no man in the world More bound to his mother; yet here he lets me prate Like one i' the stocks.
Prate here all day, with a foul evil, And all thy sermon goeth on covetise, And biddest men beware of avarice; And yet in thy sermon dost thou none other thing, But for alms stand all the day begging!
I would thou knowest it well: It becometh the knave never a deal To prate thus boldly in my presence, And let the Word of God of audience.
Yes, when the Liberty and Equality of which you prate shall have made free white Christians cheaper in the labor market than by auction at the block.
The city papers prate of the competition of Bombay with Manchester and the like.
Let us have no prate about conscience proceeding from a hard heart; these are frightful notions when they become infectious.
What would they do but call you a wicked blasphemer, and prate about the merciful goodness of their Maker, as if one Maker did not make all creatures?
It is enough that thou hast seen a great thing: is it needful that thou shouldst prate of all thou hast seen?
