If her beauty go alone, 'Tis to me as if 'twere none.
I must confess, You need not arts to move me; Such charms by nature you possess, 'Twere madness not to love ye.
Well, well, 'twere a piteous thing To chain forever that strong young wing.
It were more meet that those fine feet Were weel laced up in silken shoon, And 'twere more fit that she should sit Within yon chariot gilt aboon.
Twere new indeed to see a bard all fire, Touch'd with a coal from heaven, assume the lyre.
Twere better to be born a stone, Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine, And sensibilities so fine!
Twere some excuse, Did pity of their sufferings warp aside His principle, and tempt him into sin For their support, so destitute.
Twere well if his exterior change were all-- But with his clumsy port the wretch has lost His ignorance and harmless manners too.
Trivial the spot, yet such the rage With which the combatants engage, 'Twere hard to tell who covets most The prize--at whatsoever cost.
Twere vain, you know, To strive with a victorious foe.
Why, 'twere nobbut a week last Sunday sin he axed if onybody knew just cause or 'pediment why Tom Pounder sudn't wed Anne Coates.
You see 'twere allus t' inner voice, an' I couldn't hardlins mak out what he meant by that.
Twere all along o' him livin' wi' them Leeds loiners up at Hunslet Carr.
There were a look in his een that I'd niver seen theer afore; 'twere as if t' inner voice were speakin' through his een as well as through his mouth.
Twere best never to err, But, having erred, to take a counsellor Is second.
Twere ill, If two old men should fall by the roadway.
Some know not they are wounded till ’Tis slippery where they stand; Then each one tighter grips his steel, As ’twere salvation’s hand.
I could skip to the block like a ballet-dancer if 'twere either that or live the past two days over again and fifty years after.
Souliers Rouges was an obstruction in the Rue de la Boucherie and asked me to clear him out of Dunkerque, but 'twere a tidier job to clear him altogether.
I should like to pay a brief visit myself, if 'twere only to see old friends of the Opera Comique.
Father Hamilton, as we emerged in this malodorous open, "'twere a fairy godfather's deed to clear thee out of this feculent cloaca.
And would have his Majesty's signature to the promise as 'twere a deed of sale!
Perhaps 'twere better to kill some princes than to pick a pocket.
Were't not that we stand up against them all, 'Twere pregnant they should square between themselves; For they have entertained cause enough To draw their swords.
Twere long to tell what turpitude I saw “On every side, for rumor far fell short, “Of what I witness'd.
What could we answer, if ’twere said That Time and Fate two lovers led To lily-streams at Maidenhead, Among the rushes?
Nay," replied Abe the optimist; "but 'twere not a proper sort of dream nawther.
Twere a potate, sure enough, but I'd niver set eyes on owt like it afore, nor thee either.
I doubted 'twere t' lass that had wakkened t' larks an' gotten 'em to sing so canty.
Twere same as if all t' squirrels i' Bowland Forest had heerd t' whistle an' bin foorced to follow t' sound.
Twere the Devil I expecs, Doctor, if you ask me straight.
Twere that gal Mollie told me, an' it were Mrs Thelstane's gal Bet told her.
Twere like bein' under a tree wi' th' leeghtnin' playin' all round.
Ride with him, sirs, some two or three, And bring him hither straight: 'Twere best for him to come at once Than cause his lord to wait.
The Fates hatch more for thee; 'twere a disgrace If in thy annals I should make a clause.
An 'twere not for thy hoary head, Such hand as Marmion's had not spared To cleave the Douglas' head!
Twere long to tell what cause I have To know his face, that met me there, Called by his hatred from the grave, To cumber upper air; Dead or alive, good cause had he To be my mortal enemy.
Twere long and needless here to tell How to my hand these papers fell; With me they must not stay.
Soldan comes: and 'twere not for profit, who would live amongst such bears?
But, madam, if your ladyship would marry Upon those terms, 'twere better that you took Old Earthworm's son.
It grieves me see our martial spirits trace The idle streets, while weapons by their side Dangle and lash their backs, as 'twere to upbraid Their needless use.
By this penniless pocket, I think 'twere not the worst way.
But as for Your living honest, 'twere to take away A trade i' th' commonwealth!
Should I think all the ways they have to cosen Us, 'twere endless.
True, I fear it not; But I durst trust you, if 'twere otherwise.
If I knew Where Eugeny remain'd, though 'twere his fortune To kill a friend of mine, I'd rescue him From this unnatural and wolfish man.
If 'twere good To take from a father for an uncle's food In laws of love and nature, how much rather Might I abridge an uncle for a father?
Twould be a policy worth hatching to Have him dissected, if 'twere not too cruel.
VIII He brought her waning heart as 'twere New message from the skies.
Surely, he sat as 'twere on a high seat, and they like suppliants thronging the presence: this I saw, the heart on my ribs beating for Shagpat.
He would have spoken to them, but the sons of Aklis said, 'They have seen the flashing of the Sword, and 'twere well they wake not.
Leave the door unbarred, The clock unwound, Make my lone bed hard - Would 'twere underground!
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