A true and certaine relation of a strange-birth, which was borne at Stone-house in ... Plimmouth, the 20. of October 1635, by Th. B.1872 |
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... need before - done - deed , my dear child . And if thy lord be from home let them not go idle , Look that thou know well who do much or little ; He that hath well done yield him well his while , Hedothan other time the better but he bea ...
... need before - done - deed , my dear child . And if thy lord be from home let them not go idle , Look that thou know well who do much or little ; He that hath well done yield him well his while , Hedothan other time the better but he bea ...
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... need , and counsel hast thou none But art as bare as if thou camest from the hard stone Think that what may betide is to be feared , my dear child . Daughter I pray thee , that thou so bethink thee ( Whatever men honour thee , and set ...
... need , and counsel hast thou none But art as bare as if thou camest from the hard stone Think that what may betide is to be feared , my dear child . Daughter I pray thee , that thou so bethink thee ( Whatever men honour thee , and set ...
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... needs learning my dear child . Borrow not blithely nor take thou any loan But the more need there is or the more force Make thee not too rich of other man's things The bolder to spend the worth of a farthing . Borrowed things will home ...
... needs learning my dear child . Borrow not blithely nor take thou any loan But the more need there is or the more force Make thee not too rich of other man's things The bolder to spend the worth of a farthing . Borrowed things will home ...
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... need of them , the contrary whereof , is daily practised in this general use of Tobacco by all sorts and complexions ... needs no other proof but the meteors , which being bred of nothing else but of the vapours and exhalations sucked up ...
... need of them , the contrary whereof , is daily practised in this general use of Tobacco by all sorts and complexions ... needs no other proof but the meteors , which being bred of nothing else but of the vapours and exhalations sucked up ...
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... need of it : so is not this the very case of all the great takers of Tobacco ? which there- fore they themselves do attribute to a bewitching quality in it . Thirdly , is it not the greatest sin of all that you the people of all sorts ...
... need of it : so is not this the very case of all the great takers of Tobacco ? which there- fore they themselves do attribute to a bewitching quality in it . Thirdly , is it not the greatest sin of all that you the people of all sorts ...
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Page ix - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page ii - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Page 83 - ... compass, they do bring, or chase in the deer, in many herds, (two, three, or four hundred in a herd,) to such or such a place, as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then, when day is come, the lords and gentlemen of their companies...
Page 20 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page v - By sitting on the stage you may, without travelling for it, at the very next door ask whose play it is ; and by that quest of inquiry the law warrants you to avoid much mistaking. If you know not the author, you may rail against him, and peradventure so behave yourself, that you may enforce the author to know you.
Page v - For do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel, that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour's slumber, it cannot be bought : of so beautiful a shape is it, that, though a man...
Page ix - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 83 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Page v - ... yet no man shall once offer to hinder you from obtaining the title of an insolent, overweening coxcomb. By sitting on the stage, you may (without traveling for it) at the very next door ask whose play it is; and, by that quest of inquiry, the law warrants you to avoid much mistaking.
Page 25 - ... but care not for that, there's no music without frets. Marry, if either the company, or indisposition of the weather bind you to sit it out, my counsel is then that you turn plain ape, take up a rush, and tickle the earnest ears of your fellow gallants, to make other fools fall a-laughing: mew at passionate speeches, blare at merry, find fault with the music, whew at the children's action, whistle at the songs: and above all, curse the sharers...