Middlemarch vocabulary

But folly it were for me to mark their mischiefs, sith I am neither able, neither they willing, to amend their manners

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, p.138 (1578)

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 King. Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,

  And You must put me in your heart for friend,

  Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,

  That he which hath your noble father slain

William Shakespeare. Hamlet