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  • My liege, think again.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL (Formally) That you did conspire traitorously and maliciously to deny and deprive our liege lord Henry of his undoubted certain title, Supreme Head of the Church in England.†   (source)
  • Mistress Affery thought that on reaching the hall, she saw the door of her liege lord's office standing open, and the room empty.   (source)
  • First, mighty liege, tell me your Highness' pleasure,   (source)
  • Someday these lords will look to you as their liege.†   (source)
  • "Jon's service was the duty he owed his liege lord.†   (source)
  • By the grace of his liege lord, he holds a stout keep and lands of his own.†   (source)
  • My liege, we have taken some of their commanders.†   (source)
  • "My lords," she said then, "Lord Eddard was your liege, but I shared his bed and bore his children.†   (source)
  • The lords of the Vale will never accept such as their liege.†   (source)
  • He was High Steward of the Vale as well, Jon Arryn's trusted liege man, and Lady Lysa's.†   (source)
  • "Robb Stark was my liege lord," said Lord Wyman.†   (source)
  • "I'd guard that tongue of yours, little man," he warned, before he strode off after his liege.†   (source)
  • An old woman and three children for your liege lord.†   (source)
  • "For honor's sake I must ask about my liege lord."†   (source)
  • "I am his liege lord as well as his son-to-be, and Robb's his king."†   (source)
  • I think that would be ill done, my liege.†   (source)
  • My liege men are already upset that I invited you here.†   (source)
  • Randyll Tarly left the hall with his liege lord, their green-cloaked spearmen right behind them.†   (source)
  • That was to be my question for you, my liege.†   (source)
  • I'm his liege lord, he should be overjoyed that I'm willing to wed any of them."†   (source)
  • The young lord had tried to sail home after the kingsmoot, refusing to accept Euron as his liege.†   (source)
  • Oh, then my liege men are free to chase you down and kill you.†   (source)
  • If my liege men catch you …. well, I'm afraid they are big fans of option one!"†   (source)
  • Smuggle me back my liege lord, and I will take Stannis Baratheon as my king.†   (source)
  • Your liege man, or …. whatever you would have me be.†   (source)
  • In such cases, her liege lord must find her a suitable match.†   (source)
  • They remind me of your justice, my liege.†   (source)
  • Not too old to serve my liege, Lord Mormont.†   (source)
  • Her own liege men thought she was mad even to come.†   (source)
  • Ser Cortnay Penrose holds the castle in Renly's name, and will not believe his liege is dead.†   (source)
  • A bannerman who is brutal or unjust dishonors his liege lord as well as himself.†   (source)
  • I mean to make you liege lord of the Trident.†   (source)
  • Then Eowyn looked in the eyes of Aragorn, and she said: 'Wish me joy, my liege-lord and healer!'†   (source)
  • They died protecting their liege lord.†   (source)
  • "My lord father taught me that it was death to bare steel against your liege lord," Robb said, "but doubtless you only meant to cut my meat."†   (source)
  • "Would that we could," Ned said, "but we have duties now, my liege …. to the realm, to our children, I to my lady wife and you to your queen.†   (source)
  • My lord Hand, if these good folk believe that Ser Gregor has forsaken his holy vows for plunder and rape, let them go to his liege lord and make their complaint.†   (source)
  • Ser Wylis called a halt there, and remained behind with his men to see the fires laid and the horses tended, while his brother Wendel rode on with Catelyn and her uncle to present their father's respects to their liege lord.†   (source)
  • From his liege at Highgarden, if not.†   (source)
  • Gods know what the Karstark foot with Roose Bolton will do when they hear I've executed their liege for a traitor.†   (source)
  • And all the time, I stood by the foot of the Iron Throne in my white plate, still as a corpse, guarding my liege and all his sweet secrets.†   (source)
  • The city's walls were much more formidable than those of his father's castle, and had thousands of men to defend them, as opposed to the handful Lord Randyll would have left at Horn Hill when he marched to Highgarden to answer his liege lord's summons.†   (source)
  • My lady liege.†   (source)
  • "Ser Davos of House Seaworth," the king said, "are you my true and honest liege man, now and forever?"†   (source)
  • Robb was one, Lord Hoster's liege lord.†   (source)
  • My blood or my liege.†   (source)
  • Gendry, do you swear before the eyes of gods and men to defend those who cannot defend themselves, to protect all women and children, to obey your captains, your liege lord, and your king, to fight bravely when needed and do such other tasks as are laid upon you, however hard or humble or dangerous they may be?†   (source)
  • I am his liege.†   (source)
  • And should remain so, Davos told himself, yet instead he said, "My liege, you must have the castle, I see that now, but surely there are other ways.†   (source)
  • My liege, Pylos is pleasant enough, but I cannot see the chain about his neck without mourning for Maester Cressen.†   (source)
  • You would need to be as mad as Patchface to believe such a thing " "That may be so, my liege …. but whether they believe the story or no, they delight to tell it."†   (source)
  • Besides, the lords of the Trident were sworn to Riverrun and House Tully, and to the King in the North; they would never accept Littlefinger as their liege.†   (source)
  • These are no Lannisters, my liege.†   (source)
  • Petyr Baelish and his sons and grandsons shall hold and enjoy these honors until the end of time, and all the lords of the Trident shall do him homage as their rightful liege.†   (source)
  • "You cannot stop them talking, my liege," Davos said, "but when you take your vengeance on your brothers' true killers, the realm will know such tales for lies."†   (source)
  • After all, I was technically its liege.†   (source)
  • My liege — your Majesty —†   (source)
  • To humiliate me, and to serve as a reminder to my brothers, no doubt, as to the price of defying our liege.†   (source)
  • 'As for me,' said Imrahil, 'the Lord Aragorn I hold to be my liege-lord, whether he claim it or no. His wish is to me a command.†   (source)
  • It had once seemed to me that nothing could ever displace the immortal liege of Amber from his throne.†   (source)
  • A day would come when the liege of Amber-whoever he might he-would be faced with the problem of closing that dreadful way.†   (source)
  • "It isn't chic, but the food is all right" "Better than you eat in Liege" "Brussels, you mean."†   (source)
  • Grandma had laid most of her strength on Mama as boss-woman, governing hand, queen mother, empress, and even her banishment of George and near-senile kitchen scandals couldn't shake the respect and liege feeling so long established.†   (source)
  • In future it will be your glorious doom to take up the burden and to enjoy the nobility of your proper title: so now I shall crave the privilege of being the very first of your subjects to address you with it—as my dear liege lord, King Arthur.†   (source)
  • "I understand," continued Mordred, in what was almost a soliloquy, "that our liege lord himself must watch the execution from this window."†   (source)
  • But is it not I that speed him hence, my liege?†   (source)
  • My back is my bread, O my gracious liege! if it go idle, I starve.†   (source)
  • —he answereth not—what ho, my liege!†   (source)
  • "Who, then, my liege?" asked the Lord Protector.†   (source)
  • The sixteenth of the coming month, my liege.†   (source)
  • We can go to Brussels, Liege, Aix-la-Chapelle; then up the Rhine to Strasburg.†   (source)
  • That is the good knight and great lord Sir Kay the Seneschal, foster brother to our liege the king.†   (source)
  • It would be a mistake to write to Liege[2] for corks, and to Pau for gloves.†   (source)
  • I got enough breath to say: "Proceed, my liege; after you is manners."†   (source)
  • All unglad of mind With mood-care they mourned their own liege lord's quelling.†   (source)
  • —To you I turn, noble King Richard, with the vows of allegiance, which, as a liege-subject—†   (source)
  • "Heaven, my Liege," answered Ivanhoe, "hath taken this proud man for its victim.†   (source)
  • Great guns, my liege, where did you get that?†   (source)
  • Come, my liege, it were well that we make good use of our time.†   (source)
  • Loyal lieges, plain and practical, though at bottom they dissented from some points Captain Vere had put to them, they were without the faculty, hardly had the inclination, to gainsay one whom they felt to be an earnest man, one too not less their superior in mind than in naval rank.†   (source)
  • Always, my liege—at least if the woman desire it, and utter the needful words, either in her mind or with her tongue.†   (source)
  • " 'tis done, now, my liege," said Hendon; "I have a bit of business outside, but will presently return; sleep thou again—thou needest it.†   (source)
  • Oh, my liege, what words are these?†   (source)
  • In sooth, yesternight wert thou the Prince of Wales; to-day art thou my most gracious liege, Edward, King of England.†   (source)
  • None, my liege, in all these realms.†   (source)
  • He spurred to the King's side, bent low in his saddle, uncovered, and said— "My liege, it is an ill time for dreaming.†   (source)
  • Now will I wake him, apparel him, pour for him, feed him, and then will we hie us to the mart by the Tabard Inn in Southwark and —be pleased to rise, my liege!†   (source)
  • No, it is not strange, my liege.†   (source)
  • "Yet did my brother Hugh turn these faults to good account—he seeing that our brother Arthur's health was but indifferent, and hoping the worst might work him profit were I swept out of the path—so—but 'twere a long tale, good my liege, and little worth the telling.†   (source)
  • The law doth not permit a child to make or meddle in any weighty matter, good my liege, holding that its callow wit unfitteth it to cope with the riper wit and evil schemings of them that are its elders.†   (source)
  • Marry, no, my liege.†   (source)
  • O good my liege, not so!†   (source)
  • King John restored De Courcy's titles and possessions, and said, 'Name thy wish and thou shalt have it, though it cost me half my kingdom;' whereat De Courcy, kneeling, as I do now, made answer, 'This, then, I ask, my liege; that I and my successors may have and hold the privilege of remaining covered in the presence of the kings of England, henceforth while the throne shall last.'†   (source)
  • Thy commands, my liege!†   (source)
  • Now, little Mrs. Bird was a discreet woman,—a woman who never in her life said, "I told you so!" and, on the present occasion, though pretty well aware of the shape her husband's meditations were taking, she very prudently forbore to meddle with them, only sat very quietly in her chair, and looked quite ready to hear her liege lord's intentions, when he should think proper to utter them.†   (source)
  • —The Saxon porkers, whom I have slain, they were the foes of my country, and of my lineage, and of my liege lord.†   (source)
  • There was a fable, however,—for such we choose to consider it, though, not impossibly, typical of Judge Pyncheon's marital deportment,—that the lady got her death-blow in the honeymoon, and never smiled again, because her husband compelled her to serve him with coffee every morning at his bedside, in token of fealty to her liege-lord and master.†   (source)
  • "To get their own bread they must overdose the king's lieges; and that's a bad sort of treason, Mr. Mawmsey—undermines the constitution in a fatal way."†   (source)
  • But then was this mead-hall in the tide of the morning, This warrior-hall, gore-stain'd when day at last gleamed, All the boards of the benches with blood besteam'd over, The hall laid with sword-gore: of lieges less had I Of dear and of doughty, for them death had gotten.†   (source)
  • Mistress Affery thought that on reaching the hall, she saw the door of her liege lord's office standing open, and the room empty.†   (source)
  • To the liege subjects of Labour, the England of those days was a continent, and a mile a geographical degree.†   (source)
  • Lydgate smiled as he ended his speech, putting his foot into the stirrup, and Mr. Mawmsey laughed more than he would have done if he had known who the king's lieges were, giving his "Good morning, sir, good-morning, sir," with the air of one who saw everything clearly enough.†   (source)
  • 'Do you happen to know, Mrs Clennam,' Affery's liege lord then demanded in a much lower voice, and with an amount of expression that seemed quite out of proportion to the simple purpose of his words, 'where she lives?'†   (source)
  • [2] Liege: a cork-tree.†   (source)
  • Their wont was That oft and oft were they all yare for the war-tide, Both at home and in hosting, were it one were it either, And for every such tide as their liege lord unto The need were befallen: right good was that folk.†   (source)
  • So far as Mistress Affery was concerned, to regard her liege-lord and her disabled mistress with a face of blank wonder, to go about the house after dark with her apron over her head, always to listen for the strange noises and sometimes to hear them, and never to emerge from her ghostly, dreamy, sleep-waking state, was occupation enough for her.†   (source)
  • "What! is it Front-de-Boeuf," said the Black Knight, "who has stopt on the king's highway the king's liege subjects?†   (source)
  • 900 Now sithence the warfare of Heremod waned, His might and his valour, amidst of the eotens To the wielding of foemen straight was he betrayed, And speedily sent forth: by the surges of sorrow O'er-long was he lam'd, became he to his lieges, To all of the athelings, a life-care thenceforward.†   (source)
  • Over and above that, Mistress Affery, by some means (it was not very difficult to guess, through the sharp arguments of her liege lord), had acquired such a lively conviction of the hazard of saying anything under any circumstances, that she had remained all this time in a corner guarding herself from approach with that symbolical instrument of hers; so that, when a word or two had been addressed to her by Flora, or even by the bottle-green patriarch himself, she had warded off…†   (source)
  • "My Liege," said the Friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me.†   (source)
  • Come, my liege! in a moment they will strike a light, and then will follow that which it would break your heart to hear.†   (source)
  • I am true hermit to the king and law, and were I to spoil my liege's game, I should be sure of the prison, and, an my gown saved me not, were in some peril of hanging."†   (source)
  • Clarence came in, subdued, distressed, and said: "I hasted the message to our liege the king, and straightway he had me to his presence.†   (source)
  • Call me no longer Locksley, my Liege, but know me under the name, which, I fear, fame hath blown too widely not to have reached even your royal ears—I am Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest.†   (source)
  • My liege, as clear as the vision of an eagle does my prophetic eye penetrate and lay bare the future of this world for nearly thirteen centuries and a half!†   (source)
  • Please walk again, my liege.†   (source)
  • —In fine, good my Liege, I pray you to leave me as you found me; or, if in aught you desire to extend your benevolence to me, that I may be considered as the poor Clerk of Saint Dunstan's cell in Copmanhurst, to whom any small donation will be most thankfully acceptable."†   (source)
  • But my liege!†   (source)
  • "But your kingdom, my Liege," said Ivanhoe, "your kingdom is threatened with dissolution and civil war—your subjects menaced with every species of evil, if deprived of their sovereign in some of those dangers which it is your daily pleasure to incur, and from which you have but this moment narrowly escaped."†   (source)
  • …York, together with his daughter, a Jewess, and certain horses and mules: Which noble persons, with their 'cnichts' and slaves, and also with the horses and mules, Jew and Jewess beforesaid, were all in peace with his majesty, and travelling as liege subjects upon the king's highway; therefore we require and demand that the said noble persons, namely, Cedric of Rotherwood, Rowena of Hargottstandstede, Athelstane of Coningsburgh, with their servants, 'cnichts', and followers, also the…†   (source)
  • Dame, said the king, I come from the noble conqueror King Arthur, for to treat with that tyrant for his liege people.†   (source)
  • Forward he went, and found Kadmeians thronging a great feast in the manor of Eteokles, where, though no liege nor distant friend, and though he came alone amid so many, Tydeus went unafraid.†   (source)
  • Now shall I never rest till I meet with those kings in a fair field, that I make mine avow; for my true liege people shall not be destroyed in my default, go with me who will, and abide who that will.†   (source)
  • At Yule last he made me yeoman, and gave to me horse and harness, and an hundred pound in money; and if fortune be my friend, I doubt not but to be well advanced and holpen by my liege lord.†   (source)
  • So it befell on a time when King Arthur was at London, there came a knight and told the king tidings how that the King Rience of North Wales had reared a great number of people, and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king's true liege people.†   (source)
  • And anon he sent and commanded that none of his liege men should defoul nor lie by no lady, wife nor maid; and when he came into the city, he passed to the castle, and comforted them that were in sorrow, and ordained there a captain, a knight of his own country.†   (source)
  • Then lift he up his eyes and said weeping: Fair sweet Lord Jesu Christ, whose liege man I am, keep Lionel, my brother, that these knights slay him not, and for pity of you, and for Mary's sake, I shall succour this maid.†   (source)
  • Then all aloud cried Accolon unto all the knights and men that were then there gathered together, and said to them in this manner, O lords, this noble knight that I have fought withal, the which me sore repenteth, is the most man of prowess, of manhood, and of worship in the world, for it is himself King Arthur, our alther liege lord, and with mishap and with misadventure have I done this battle with the king and lord that I am holden withal.†   (source)
  • "I'd tell ye the proper Gaelic for your liege lord and ruler, but it isna a word suitable for the lips of a lady, Sassenach or no." Stooping, he plucked the balled-up shirt out of the ashes of the hearth and shook the worst of the soot off it.†   (source)
  • THE PEERS: I do become your liege man of life and limb to earthly worship.†   (source)
  • We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar and of the empire of the spirit, not an imperium, that went under with the Athenian fleets at Aegospotami.†   (source)
  • This meanwhile this good sister stood by the door and begged them at the reverence of Jesu our alther liege Lord to leave their wassailing for there was above one quick with child, a gentle dame, whose time hied fast.†   (source)
  • …lictors preceding the consuls, The antique European warrior with his axe in combat, The uplifted arm, the clatter of blows on the helmeted head, The death-howl, the limpsy tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither, The siege of revolted lieges determin'd for liberty, The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley, The sack of an old city in its time, The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumultuously and disorderly, Roar, flames, blood,…†   (source)
  • And I wish, my liege, You had only in your silent judgment tried it, Without more overture.†   (source)
  • CHORUS I had misgivings from the first, my liege, Of something more than natural at work.†   (source)
  • My liege, your highness now may do me good.†   (source)
  • 'tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her.†   (source)
  • Ay, my liege; so please you give us leave.†   (source)
  • First, mighty liege, tell me your highness' pleasure, What from your grace I shall deliver to him.†   (source)
  • When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.†   (source)
  • Fare you well, my liege: I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, And tell you what I know.†   (source)
  • If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.†   (source)
  • Pronounce that sentence, then, on me, my liege: I cannot live out of her company.†   (source)
  • We can:—my royal liege, He is not guilty of her coming hither.†   (source)
  • Most dread liege, The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.†   (source)
  • Unless for that he comes to be your liege, You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.†   (source)
  • And where my liege's? all about the breast: A caudle, ho!†   (source)
  • As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace.†   (source)
  • She's thine, my liege; but I may rightly claim Hence to depart well quit of all these ills.†   (source)
  • ] I like your silence,—it the more shows off Your wonder: but yet speak;—first, you, my liege.†   (source)
  • ] CHORUS My liege, that man hath gone, foretelling woe.†   (source)
  • Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset, 'tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.†   (source)
  • A toy, my liege, a toy: your Grace needs not fear it.†   (source)
  • Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Bois.†   (source)
  • We left the prince my brother here, my liege, Who undertook to sit and watch by you.†   (source)
  • ] CHORUS Thy son has gone, my liege, in angry haste.†   (source)
  • Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much To think my poverty is treacherous.†   (source)
  • Now, my liege, Tell me what blessings I have here alive, That I should fear to die.†   (source)
  • None good, my liege, to please you with the hearing; Nor none so bad but well may be reported.†   (source)
  • It is, my liege; and all things are in readiness.†   (source)
  • Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.†   (source)
  • Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.†   (source)
  • — My liege, and madam,—to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night is night, and time is time.†   (source)
  • I can but say their protestation over; So much, dear liege, I have already sworn, That is, to live and study here three years.†   (source)
  • My wife, my liege!†   (source)
  • <3> First I pronounce whence that I come, And then my bulles shew I all and some; Our liege lorde's seal on my patent, That shew I first, *my body to warrent,* *for the protection That no man be so hardy, priest nor clerk, of my person* Me to disturb of Christe's holy werk.†   (source)
  • CHORUS My liege, if any man sees eye to eye With our lord Phoebus, 'tis our prophet, lord Teiresias; he of all men best might guide A searcher of this matter to the light.†   (source)
  • Then lift he up his eyes and said weeping: Fair sweet Lord Jesu Christ, whose liege man I am, keep Lionel, my brother, that these knights slay him not, and for pity of you, and for Mary's sake, I shall succour this maid.†   (source)
  • My liege, I did deny no prisoners.†   (source)
  • My liege, They are not yet come back.†   (source)
  • Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: What further woe conspires against mine age?†   (source)
  • Now shall I never rest till I meet with those kings in a fair field, that I make mine avow; for my true liege people shall not be destroyed in my default, go with me who will, and abide who that will.†   (source)
  • Sir, my liege, Do not infest your mind with beating on The strangeness of this business: at pick'd leisure, Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,— Which to you shall seem probable—of every These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful And think of each thing well.†   (source)
  • We have, my liege.†   (source)
  • Gentle my liege—[Kneeling.†   (source)
  • And so he went on with the ballad as far as the lines: O noble Marquis of Mantua, My Uncle and liege lord!†   (source)
  • I shall, my liege.†   (source)
  • I can, my liege.†   (source)
  • Good my liege,— Lear.†   (source)
  • Dame, said the king, I come from the noble conqueror King Arthur, for to treat with that tyrant for his liege people.†   (source)
  • Hear me, my liege: For mine own part, I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours; for I do protest, I have not sought the day of this dislike.†   (source)
  • This knight he stood not still, as doth a beast, But to this question anon answer'd With manly voice, that all the court it heard, "My liege lady, generally," quoth he, "Women desire to have the sovereignty As well over their husband as their love And for to be in mast'ry him above.†   (source)
  • I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incens'd that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.†   (source)
  • Our House, my sovereign liege, little deserves The scourge of greatness to be used on it; And that same greatness too which our own hands Have holp to make so portly.†   (source)
  • My liege, I am advised what I say; Neither disturb'd with the effect of wine, Nor, heady-rash, provok'd with raging ire, Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.†   (source)
  • At Yule last he made me yeoman, and gave to me horse and harness, and an hundred pound in money; and if fortune be my friend, I doubt not but to be well advanced and holpen by my liege lord.†   (source)
  • 'tis past, my liege: And I beseech your majesty to make it Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth, When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force, O'erbears it and burns on.†   (source)
  • He said; "The king of Araby and Ind, My liege lord, on this solemne day Saluteth you as he best can and may, And sendeth you, in honour of your feast, By me, that am all ready at your hest,* *command This steed of brass, that easily and well Can in the space of one day naturel (This is to say, in four-and-twenty hours), Whereso you list, in drought or else in show'rs, Beare your body into every place To which your hearte willeth for to pace,* *pass, go Withoute wem* of you, through…†   (source)
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