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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

by George Whitefield Powers

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Z.




Zeal.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
2137
SHAKS.: Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2.

His zeal
None seconded, as out of season judg'd,
Or singular and rash.
2138
MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 849.

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