Word: nay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...NAY, never say thou lov'st but Yale...
...taste of the tree of knowledge. And as he went (gently reclining in a Palace Car of the fabric Pullman) an elderly lady, kind and exceeding curious, made bold to ask him wherefore he sallied forth thus alone. To which Lighthead replied, "I go to the College Harvard." "Nay," quoth the dame, "'tis a naughty place. Prithee turn back." But Lighthead, still with his burden on his back, went forward, and on the morning of the second day he reached a city duller than the grave. And Lighthead, somewhat weary, did partake of refreshment and the nut-brown...
...Nay, bid me not resign love...
FAUST (laughing). Nay, good Mephisto, storm and rage at will...
...FAUST. Nay, you forget there is one power above