upbraid

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Upbraid me not with fancied wickedness; I am not yet a queen, or an apostate.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

O tell na me o' wind an' rain, Upbraid na me wi' cauld disdain, Gae back the gate ye cam again, I winna let ye in, jo.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Kind Marian, with sweet comforts comfort him, And my tall yeomen, as you me affect, Upbraid him not with his forepassed life.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

When o'er death's ferry youth departs, Upbraid not his reluctant moan; Think of the loved and loving hearts He leaves, to cross the gulf alone.

From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.

Ye faithful men whose crimson blood In her defence is shed, Upbraid her not if thus she weep Above the guilty dead!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various