What is "equall"

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For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr.

The torments this thought gave him were to be equalled only by a piece of news which fortune had yet in store for him, and which we shall communicate in the second chapter of the ensuing book.

Without it, I cannot say what might befall them at the hands of the Van guardsmen, whose cruelty is equalled only by their ingenuity.

Him als accompanyd vpon the wayA comely Palmer, clad in blacke attire,Of ripest yeares, and haires all hoarie gray,That with a staffe his feeble steps did stire,Least his long way his aged limbes should tire:And if by lookes one may the mind aread,He seemd to be a sage and sober sire,And euer with slow pace the knight did lead,Who taught his trampling steed with equall steps to tread.

But they him spying, both with greedy forseAttonce vpon him ran, and him besetWith strokes of mortall steele without remorse,And on his shield like yron sledges bet:As when a Beare and Tygre being metIn cruell fight on lybicke Ocean wide,Espye a traueiler with feet surbet,Whom they in equall pray hope to deuide,They stint their strife, and him assaile on euery side.

He was a man of rare redoubted might,Famous throughout the world for warlike prayse,And glorious spoiles, purchast in perilous fight:Full many doughtie knights he in his dayesHad doen to death, subdewde in equall frayes,Whose carkases, for terrour of his name,Of fowles and beastes he made the piteous prayes,And hong their conquered armes for more defameOn gallow trees, in honour of his dearest Dame.

But what art thou, ô Ladie, which doest raungeIn this wilde forrest, where no pleasure is,And doest not it for ioyous court exchaunge,Emongst thine equall peres, where happie blisAnd all delight does raigne, much more then this?

Vnknightly Knight, the blemish of that name,And blot of all that armes vppon them take,Which is the badge of honour and of fame,Loe I defie thee, and here challenge make,That thou for euer doe those armes forsake,And be for euer held a recreant Knight,Vnlesse thou dare for thy deare Ladies sake,And for thine owne defence on foote alight,To iustifie thy fault gainst me in equall fight.

For not of nought these suddeine ghastly fearesAll night afflict thy naturall repose,And all the day, when as thine equall peares,Their fit disports with faire delight doe chose,Thou in dull corners doest thy selfe inclose,Ne tastest Princes pleasures, ne doest spredAbroad thy fresh youthes fairest flowre, but loseBoth leafe and fruit, both too vntimely shed,As one in wilfull bale for euer buried.

For equall right in equall things doth stand,For what the mighty Sea hath once possest,And plucked quite from all possessors hand,Whether by rage of waues, that neuer rest,Or else by wracke, that wretches hath distrest,He may dispose by his imperiall might,As thing at randon left, to whom he list.

Thus as they gan of sundry things deuise,Loe two most goodly virgins came in place,Ylinked arme in arme in louely wise,With countenance demure, and modest grace,They numberd euen steps and equall pace:Of which the eldest, that Fidelia hight,Like sunny beames threw from her Christall face,That could haue dazd the rash beholders sight,And round about her head did shine like heauens light.

In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equall durations.