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That I could'st but grovel at her feet her hand with pat my head to meet but Nay! her viewing elite Woe! deny'th me my treat

This blog is 4 years old today. Ann Althouse 2008

If I could'st but work my will like a veritable nymph on the pill would'st the uncouth have their fill of verse and meter and prose n'er shrill verily to forgo the Blogsphere's usual swill

Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007

That I could'st but make her come verily Junior twould be so dumb

Discovered: the basis of human civilization. Ann Althouse 2005

Would run from them, if thou And tears in streamlets from their excellence could'st see. thine eyes had flowed.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

If thou, fat shade! could'st give one slice of mutton.

Poems (1828) Thomas Gent

Wake Duncan with thy knocking; I would thou could'st '

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

How thou could'st bear them, this men shall not know

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars 39-65 Lucan

It stays; -- and with thee, if thou could'st, would go.

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid

Would that thou, O sun, could'st heal, could'st heal these bleeding lids of my eyes, and remove this gloomy-darkness.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

If thou, dear shade! could'st give one slice of mutton.

Poetic Sketches Thomas Gent