Green Eyes and Bed.
Green eyes have but few admirers, ana art not aseociated with very desirable tr*its of character; as in Burns:— Sic a wife as "Willie had, I wadna'gie a button foff her; She has an e'e— she has but ane i the cat has twa the very colour. Red or fiery eyes are several timas mentioned by Shake»peare as indicating great anger orf m»hoe, as, when Marcutio is slain. Romoa oties— Away to heaven respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. j Ag«io, in " Henry VI " : His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful flr« More dazzled and drove back his enemies Than midday sun. One of King John's nobles is seen "wsth eye* as red as new enkindled fire." In "Henry VI " n« hare* Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blah his heart* malice, And Comiuius, speaking of Coriolanus, says? I tell you, he does ait in gold ; his eya Red as 'twould burn Rome. —The Hospital.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2199, 23 April 1896, Page 49
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159Green Eyes and Bed. Otago Witness, Issue 2199, 23 April 1896, Page 49
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