Z.
Reading edition
Zeal.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
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SHAKS.:
Henry VIII.,
Act iii., Sc. 2.
His zeal
None seconded, as out of season judg'd,
Or singular and rash.
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MILTON:
Par. Lost,
Bk. v., Line 849.