For instance, you could stand in the wings and see an actor who just seconds ago was standing in front of the audience saying " forsooth " and " fa " and " Hortensio " and other Shakespeare-related words come offstage and look at you with equal seriousness and say " you're lucky _ you don't have to wear THESE " as he peeled off a pair of ballet slippers.
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There the Catholic reference is altered to something more in accord with his time : Here is a fellow, you will say, / Carried a knapsack t other day, / In wretched, dismal, dirty plight, / And now, forsooth, he s dubb d a Knight ! La Fontaine himself, however, had then gone on to say in his preface that he prefers repose, which is the divine lot, an Epicurean doctrine according to the commentators.
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After all, the same Paul wrote in Romans 11 : 25-26 : [ http : / / www . biblegateway . com / passage / ? search = romans % 2011 : 25-26; & version = 53; " Forsooth, brethren, I will not that ye unknow this mystery, that ye be not wise to yourselves; for blindness hath felled of part in Israel, till the plenty of heathen men entered, and so all Israel should be made safe.
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Elizabeth C . Winship in " The Boston Globe " calls the book " a slow starter [ it ] but picks up tremendously, " with " the battles . . . many and lively and the engines of war highly ingenious . " She feels the " long trips to Syria and Egypt . . . extend this rich picture of life around the Mediterranean over 2000 years ago " but thinks the speech, " [ a ] s is the case in many historical novels, . . . a bit stilted, sprinkled with'forsooths'and'impudent rogues . '"
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Which slew both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and pursued us, and they please not to God, and they be adversaries to all men; forbidding us to speak to heathen men, that they be made safe, that they fill their sins evermore; forsooth the wrath of God before came upon them till into the end . " The last words, in the Vulgata " usque in finem ", in Koine ??? ?????, have been interpreted as meaning " till the end times ", although the more usual later interpretation ( for example in the King James ) is " to the utmost degree ".
