 | George Wishart - Scotland - 1819 - 562 pages
...ambition scorns to love. A noble soul doth still abhore To strike, but where its conquerour. Part First. MY dear and only love I pray This noble world of thee, Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchic. For if confusion have a part, Which vertuous souls... | |
 | Librarians - 1819 - 556 pages
...ambition scorns to love. A noble soul doth still abhore To strike, but where its conquerour. Part First. MY dear and only love I pray This noble world of thee, Be governed by no other sway Which vertuous souls abhore, And hold a synod in thy heart, But purest monarchic.... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 540 pages
...: — " My dear and only love, I pray That little world of thine Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. "For if confusion have a part Which virtuous souls abhor, And call a synod in thine heart, I'll never love thee more. " Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 356 pages
...dearie, O. I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE. THE MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. Mv dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee, Be govern'd by no other sway But purest...confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I'll call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 408 pages
...dearie, O. I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE. THE MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. MY dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee, Be govern'd by no other sway But purest...confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I'll call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | James Maidment - 1834 - 260 pages
...lines should find such favour, while BJontrose's poems, including those beautiful verses commencing My dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee, &c. VI. EXTRACT FROM MERCURIUS REFOHMATUS, 4th June 1690. But since I am on this tragical subject of... | |
 | Mark Napier - Church and state - 1838 - 576 pages
...horror of such tribunals was even to mingle with the gentlest effusions of his accomplished mind, — My dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor,... | |
 | Mark Napier - Scotland - 1840 - 580 pages
...beautiful verses to his love for his royal master, and his anxiety to save him from evil counsellors. My dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest Monarchie ; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 592 pages
...three stanzas, which Mrs. Arkwright has set to music with her usual exquisite taste and skill : — ' My dear and only love, I pray This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
 | Literature - 1847 - 650 pages
...three stanzas, which Mrs. Arkwright has set to music with her usual exquisite taste and skill :— " My dear and only love, I pray This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
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I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all. 
