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Moreover, you might, if you had liked, have fixt the penalty at banishment in the course of the trial—the state which refuses to let you go now would have let you go then.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

The faire starre is well fixt, for where, O, where, Could she have fixt it on a fairer spheare?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard