Master Harpfield preched at Powlles Crosse, when ther wher fyve did penans with shetts (sheets) abowt them and tapurs and rods in ther handes, and the prycher dyd stryke them with a rod, and ther did they stand tyll the sermon was well done.
Also, "A lad was wypd at the post in Chepe for ronnyng abowt masterless as a vagobond.
We ar pluckyng down an hygher vaute,’ writes the receiver, ‘borne up by fower thicke and grose pillars xiiij fote fro syde to syde, abowt in circumference xlv fote .
I wooll thys daye goo abowt to know the trowthe, thes thinges woold be met with all in tyme and the sonner the better.
Shun it as you would a wild hyeny with a firebrand tied to his tale, and while you air abowt it you will do a first-rate thing for yourself and everybody abowt you by shunnin all kinds of intoxicatin lickers.
Your gals in partickular air abowt as snug bilt peaces of Calliker as I ever saw.
You don't need 'em no more'n a cat needs 2 tales, sayin nothin abowtthe trubble and sufferin they cawse.
I tear myself away from you with tears in my eyes & a pleasant oder of Onyins abowt my close.
Washington was abowt the best man this world ever sot eyes on.
And qhen ye ar abowt half a myll fra schoir, as it ver passing by the howse, to gar set forth ane vaf.
I had nocht bene busyed abowt sum turnis of my avin, I thoght till hew cummit over to S.
Lard Bower,--I pray yow hast yow hast to me abowt the erand I tald yow, and ve sall confer at lenth of all thingis.
Item, Arblaster hathe sent a letter to myn Lorde of Oxenefords tenaunts that be nerrest abowt Cotton to help John Paston yf they be sent to, &c.
Remove to Mr. Harding and Mr. Abbot at Oxford abowt my Arabik boke.
July 13th, Mr. Talbot cam abowt 3 of the clok afternone, with whom I had some wordes of unkendnes: we parted frendely: he sayd that the Lord Morley had the Lord Mountegle his bokes.
Luresey his howse; abowt thre of the clok after dynner dyd the Bishop of Laigham serve process uppon me for the nangle, but most unduely.
Roger Cook his supposed plat laying to my discredit was by Arthur my sone fownd by chaunce in a box of his papers in his own handwriting circa meridiem, and after none abowt 1½ browght to my knowledg face to face.
June 11th, I wrote to the Erle of Derby, his secretary, abowt Manchester.
Fryday, I rode to Syr John Byron’s, to Royton, to talk with him abowt the controversy betwene the colledg and his tenants.
Poland abowt none to Trebone: I sent word to my Lord straight.
John Crocker intendeth to returne abowt Easter or at Whitsuntyde next.
July 23rd, at Grenwich abowt mydnight following this day began the first evydent shew of my grief of kidneys; whereuppon Doctor Giffard caused me to have a glyster, and so the next day I was easid of my grief.
July 18th, Barthilmew Knaresburgh his sone borne at break of day abowt 3 of the clok.
They were rynges of gold abowt theyr priuie members.
Amerigo Vespucci and Andreas de Corsali a treatise entitled “Of the Pole Antartike and the starsabowt the same and of the qualitie of the regions and disposition of the Elementes abowt the Equinoctiall line.
But hath foure ſtarres whiche compaſſe itabowt in forme of a quadrangle.
The tenpun notes floo abowt as common as haypince--clarrit and shampang was at his house as vulgar as gin; and verry glad I was, to be sure, to be a valley to a zion of the nobillaty.
At the end of the evening (which wasabowt five o'clock the nex morning) they stopt.
Abowt 12 master had returned, and Mr. Dick Blewitt came stridin up the stairs with a sollum and important hair.
The Egle Russet with a maydenshead, abowt her neke a Crowne gold, is the bage of the mannor of Conysborow.
That same dyd entertayne me very gently, he told me what greate labure had be abowt ye readynge of thos verses, & how many dyd rubbe thayr spectakles abowt thaym.
In ye aultre is the poynte of the sword that styryd abowt the braynes of thys blessyd martyr.
Yelverton is abowt to make a bargayne with the Dwches of Suffolk or with my Lord of Norfolk, whyche he may get fyrst, for the maner of Gwton.
Whedyr it be so or nowt, hys byllys of hys owne hand wyll not lye, for he mad hys byllys clere or then the sege com abowt us.
Item, men seye that the Erle off Oxenfford is abowt the Ilde off Tenett hoveryng, som seye wyth grett companye, and som seye, with ffewe.
Amyd a rank tre lurkis a goldin bewch, With aurial levis, and flexibill twystis tewch, 30 Onto Juno infernal consecrate, That standis lowkit abowt and obumbrate With dirk schaddowis of the thik wod schaw.
In the meyn tyme, of the nycht wach the cure We geif Mesapus, the ȝettis to discure, And forto beit brycht fyris abowt the wallys.
The Tuscanys rasyt a clamour to the sky, And Latynys all thar eyn abowt dyd wry.
We sot & tawked there sum time abowt matters & things, & bimeby I axed him how he liked bein Prince as fur as he'd got.
If you say anythin abowt my show say my snaiks is as harmliss as the new-born Babe.
Nobody didn't understand nothin abowt what he sed, and so they applawdid him versiferusly.
Admittin all you say abowt the doctrin to be troo, I must say the reglar perfessional Sperrit rappers--them as makes a biznis on it--air abowt the most ornery set of cusses I ever enkountered in my life.
Miss Patty is small for her size, but as the man sed abowt his wife, O Lord!
Four or five other Border ruffins air killed, but thay don't say nothin abowtseein their mothers.
He sez freedum must extend its Area & rubs his hands like he was pleesed abowt it.
I felt sumwhat alarmed, & arose & in a stentoewrian voice obsarved that if any lady or gentleman in that there kar had a krisis consealed abowt their persons they'd better projuce it to onct or suffer the konsequences.
In abowt two hours, when he knew the ladies were gon, he pretends to be vastly anxious abowt the loss of his potfolio; and back he goes to Lady Griffinses to seek for it there.
It wasabowt ten o'clock, and he propoased to the ladies, on seeing them, a number of planns for the day's rackryation.
How I did wish for Pump Court agin, as we were tawsing abowtin the Channel!
This daye abowt iiij of the clocke at after noone my L.
Weel, there's neaw use whimperingabowt a duv," observed Jem, gruffly.
Howsomever we mun contrive to ketch him, or Sir Roaph win send us aw abowt our business.
There's a queer glimmer abowt your een that ey didna notice efore, and that ey mislike.
An' neaw yo knoan aw abowt it, yo con ha nah more hesitation.
By abowt six o'clock in the morning I was drest in my full uniform; and I didnt know how to pass the interveaning hours.
It was curius to remark abowt that singlar gal, Lady Hangelina, that melumcolly as she was when she was talking to me, and ever so disml--yet she kep on laffing every minute like the juice and all.
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