That we may in clearnesse of judgment, and uprightnesse of heart be means to reform what is indeed amisse in Church and State.
To obey this the better Dom Pedro thought it not amisse to remove his sone from the court and city and send him to a plaisant country house called the Fountaines, wheir we leive the young Ponce de Leon, and returnes to our Almahide on the sea.
Its not amisse to point as it ware wt the finger at that drollery of the priest who preaching upon the gifts that the 3 wise men gave to Christ, alleadged the first gave d'or, myrrthe, the 2d argent.
I thinke it not amisse to report somewhat more concerning the two foresaid brethren Reginaldus and Olauus.
The knight not able to abide such presumptuous demeanour in that proud and arrogant person, shaped him this answer: “It is not amisse that I being on horssebacke, should come to thée sitting on horssebacke.
John Gabote and his three sonnes, Lewes, Sebastian, and Sancius; the wordes whereof it shoulde not be amisse here to sett downe, as they are printed in my booke of voyadges.
It is not amisse to cut off the top of your graffe, and leaue it but fiue or sixe inches long, because commonly you shall see the tops of long graffes die.
By this it should appeare, that Fabian hath gathered amissein the account of the reignes of the British kings: for it appeareth by Beda [Sidenote: 634.
Secondlie, for so much as the confusion of toongs was the originall cause of the dispersion of the people ouer the face of the whole earth, it shall not be amisse also to examine the same.
I thinke it not amisse to set downe what Mamertinus in his oration written in praise of Maximianus dooth report of this matter, which shall be performed in the chapter following.
It shall not be amisse in this place somewhat to intreat of the towne of Fawy, which is [Sidenote: Comwhath.
In beginning therefore with my purpose; First bicause the flood of Noah was generall, and therefore appertinent vnto all, it shall not be amisse to begin with that, which was in the yeare 1656.
As for flies (sith it shall not be amisse a little to touch them also) we haue none that can doo hurt or [Sidenote: Cutwasted.
And because the way to New England is over Sea, it will not beamisse to give you directions, what is most necessary to bee carried.
So please it you my Lord, 'twere not amisse He were created Knight for his good seruice King.
It shall not be amisse therefore to begin at the nauie of Xerxes, of which ech meane vessell (as appeereth by Herodot) was able to receiue two hundred and thirtie souldiers, and some of them three hundred.
It shall not be amisse in this place somewhat to intreat of the [Sidenote: Comwhath.
Now for as much as this rouler is of so good vse and yet not generally vsed in this kingdome, I thinke it not amisse to shew you the figure thereof.
Now because this Toastrée is such a notable Implement both in Plough, Cart, or Waine, and so worthy to be imitated of all good husbands, I thinke it not amisse to shew you the figure thereof.
In Persia there are that staine linnen cloth: it is not amisse you learne it if you can: it hath bene an olde trade in England, whereof some excellent clothes yet remaine: but the arte is now lost, and not to be found in the Realme.
To whom I thinke it shall not be amisse in defence of rules builded vpon reason, and in practise allowed, thus much to say for answere.
But it shall not be amisse to adde in this place the words which he is said to haue spoken on his death-bed, which were in effect as followeth.
But ye put them in prison ofte, whan they do after goddes lawe; and, by saynt Austines rule, if ony did amisse and wolde not amende him, ye should put him from you.
Yet, censur’d others Errours, as if none Had cause to say, that they amisse have done?
I thought it not amisse to yeeld your Highness A reason of my speeches; lest perhaps You might conceive I flatter'd: which (I know) Of all ils under heaven you most abhorre.
However, "there be some French poets will affoord excellent entertainment specially Du Bartas, and 'twere not amisseto give a slight salute to Ronsard and Desportes, and the late Theophile.
And they doe asmuche amisse too, that never have other thing in their mouthe, then their children, their wife, and their nourse.
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