In Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Sancho Panza (Quixote’s squire) describes the insatiable and indiscriminate appetite of Death in one of his classic sanchismos:

By my faith, Señor,” responded Sancho, “you mustn’t trust in the fleshless woman, I mean Death, who devours lamb as well as mutton; I’ve heard our priest say that she tramples the high towers [...]

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While surfing Early English Books Online (our library recently purchased perpetual access), I found this anonymous ballad on the resurrection of Christ penned somewhere between 1658 and 1664. I’ve retained the original punctuation and spelling, though I have converted the typeset to modern lettering. Have a blessed Easter Day!

A most Godly and Comfortable Ballad of [...]

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All: thanks for your patience with me as I have slowly returned to the world of the upright from my recent … unpleasantness. I am still in something of a Nyquil haze, but the time to get up and be doing has arrived. I return with a quote from Longfellow’s Psalm of Life:

Let us then [...]

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