Come, Lucius, let not silly thought of right Subject our city to the Roman's might: For why you know in Marius only end Rome will reward, and Sylla will befriend. LUCIUS.

Warden of the Fleet, I see I am your charge, Befriend me thus, lest by their command I be prevented of what I intend.

There's little in my game that will commend me; I'm not a shark who shoots the course in par; I need good fortune often to befriend me; I have my faults and know just what they are.

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When she had recovered from her surprise, Bianca fell upon her knees and, weeping, besought Francesco to befriend her and Pietro.

A graceful enquirie, and well observ'd: Sir, my company shall make ye copious of novelties, let your Tables befriend your memorie: write, 'by this bright Horrison.' Phy. '

" Protected in such an impregnable tower of defence from the strife of tongues, Mr. Schoolcraft has been enabled freely to forgive, and even befriend, those narrow-minded calumniators who have aimed so many poisoned arrows at his fame, his character, and his success in life.

But when she is dead and gone; when the cares and coldness of the world come withering to our hearts; when we find how hard it is to find true sympathy;how few love us for ourselves; how few will befriend us in our misfortunesthen it is that we think of the mother we have lost.

I begged and prayed my aunt to befriend and protect me, for my father's sake.

Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow, Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

" "No," said Merlin, "I could have saved myself if I had wished; but you are nearer death than I am, for now you are certainly traveling toward death unless God befriend you.

Neglect, ridicule, vulgar abuse, slander, threats, intimidation, misrepresentation, and legal prosecutions, have been the mildest weapons employed against those who in the discharge of their sworn duties dared to befriend the oppressed.

"That such a being, noble, tender, So fair, so delicate, so dear, Would let one love her, and befriend her!

Part on your heart's desire, on minstrels spend Part; and your kindred and your kind befriend: And daily to the gods bid altar-fires ascend.

He raised rich shrines to mother and to sire, There reared their forms in ivory and gold, Passing in beauty, to befriend mankind.

"Be thou the first true merit to befriend; His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.

I cannot wait describing how she came; My glance first lighted on her nimble feet; Her feet resembled those long shells explored By him who, to befriend his steed's dim sight, Would blow the pungent powder in his eye.'" Is that receipt for horse eye-powder to be found in White's Farriery, Mr. Landor?

" This was the first opportunity Isaac had of carrying into effect his early resolution to befriend the oppressed Africans.

No one took the slightest trouble to befriend or advise him, though he was one who responded eagerly to affectionate interest.

"I guess it am a whale," suggested Sam, anxious to befriend the lad.

* * "Yes, yes, we still contive it, because there are no guards to be found here who don't befriend them.

We would regret very much to do this, as we are here to befriend the Filipinos.

So I take my leave and pray All the comforts of the day, Such as Phoebus' heat doth send On the earth, may still befriend Thee and this arbour! Clorin.

For if Uncle has a glimmer of a suspicion that I would befriend Sada at the cost of his plans, so surely as the river is lost in the sea, Sada would disappear from my world until it was too late for me to lend a hand.

The scholars listened with profound interest and attention, and though the teacher said little about his share in the affair, and spoke of what he did as if it were a matter of course that he should thus befriend a boy in distress, an impression very favorable to himself must have been made.