Then Venus spake unto Psyches againe saying: Seest thou the toppe of yonder great Hill, from whence there runneth downe waters of blacke and deadly colour, which nourisheth the floods of Stix, Cocytus?
Amid the Caue of Ebonye a bedsted standeth hie, And on the same a bed of downe with couering blacke doth lie: In which the drowzie God of sleepe his lither limbes doth rest.
Behold, euen full vpon the waue a flake of waterblacke Did breake, and vnderneathe the sea the head of Ceyx stracke.
And all the heauen with clouds as blacke as pitch was ouercast, That neuer night was halfe so darke.
The plant, according to the old herbalist, was noted for its efficacy, when applied with honey, in removing "blacke and blewe spots which come of stripes.
They could preserve the eyesight, "helpe blacke eies comming by blowes," and take away redness and yellowness.
Vppon the which, stoode a most blacke stone, in forme three square, and in quantitie for breadth, fitting the rounde, and in height one pace and a halfe.
The fourth of pretious Nebritis from a blacke growing to a white and greene.
These histories were perfected within the compasse of one selfe same stone, and set out in a most blacke ground.
I wished my selfe the swiftnes of Atalanta, beeing but young and vnarmed, no way able to encounter with such a poisonable force, and perceiuing his blacke infectious breath smoaking out at his mouth.
And the opposite of verie blacke stone, scorning and contemning the hardnes of iron, and cleare and shining as a mirror.
Vpon the heade of the trygonall blacke stone, towarde euerie corner, I did behold an Egiptian Monster of Gold, fower footed couchant.
Others of the colour of the Obsidium of India, blacke and shining, adorned with floures of Orient Pearle, & Carkenets of the same.
He isblacke as any cole, Ragged as a rough fole; His body from the navill upwards.
In the forefront came a man of a large body and goodly aspect, bearing the Septer or royall mace (made of a certaine kind of blacke wood, and in length about a yard and a halfe) before the king.
After this founteine followed a ladie all in blacke silke dropped with fine siluer, on a courser trapped in the same.
Then followed a knight in a horsselitter, the coursers & litter apparelled in blacke with siluer drops.
And now the sonne with the blacke cloudes did stryve, And shettynge on the grounde his glairie raie, The Abbatte spurrde his steede, and eftsoones roadde awaie.
Ne coulde the queede, and alle the myghte of Helle, Founde out impleasaunce of syke blacke a geare.
I have a kynge, and none can laie Blacketreason onne my hedde.
I would spend my soule willingly, to haue this triple headed Pope with all his sin-absolued whores, and oile-greased priests borne with a blacke sant on the deuills backes in procession to the pit of perdition.
Hee was apparelled in blacke leather new licourd, and a short gowne without any gathering in the backe, faced before and behind with a boistrous Beare skinne, and a red nightcap on his head.
At the foote of this bush represented on his bases, lay a number of blacke swolne Toades gasping for winde, and Summer liu'de grashoppers gaping after deaw, both which were choakt with excessiue drouth, and for want of shade.
His body being dead lookd as blacke as a toad: the diuell presently branded it for his owne.
Faith, Ned, and Ile lord it out till thou comest: Ile be Prince of Wales over all the blacke pots[1335] in Oxford.
And all poore soules that skoure blacke bolles, And them hath lustely trowlde, God save the lyves of them and ther wyves, Wether they be yonge or olde!
How like a beauteous lady, maskt in blacke Lookes that same large circumference of heaven!
The only other new play that could during those weeks have assisted to swell the profits of the theatre was the First Part of Blacke Battman of the North, by distinguished authors, to be sure, but not extant.
Wherefore it maie be likelie, that the blacke Morian will sooner become white, than the people bred in France will heartilie loue an English borne.
The lords which lodged within the citie held a dailie councell at blacke friers; the other part soiourning without the walles, assembled likewise in the chapiter house at Westminster.
These speeches being finished, there was brought foorth certain peeces of blacke silke of twelue vares[17] long a peece.
These souldiers carried in their handes blacke banners, and other heauie and sorowfull signes (which is vsed in that kingdome, when at any time they doo execute anie person).
The hony also helpeth those which haue drunke vnwares the iuyce of blacke Poppie, so that againste the same euill and daunger they drinke rosed honny warme.
Whereof (he sayth) the blacke Feries be the woorst.
Elizabeth Bennet acknowledged that she had two 'spirits, one called Suckin, being blacke like a Dogge, the other called Lierd, beeing red like a Lion.
The Huntingdonshire witch, Francis Moore, in 1646, 'saith that about eight yeares since she received a little blacke puppy from one Margaret Simson of great Catworth.
Alwayes in the shape of a dogge, and of two collars, sometimes of blacke and sometimes of white.
Howe'r, I'll weare the black and white ribband, White for her fortunes, blacke for mine shall stand.
With Passions, blacke as is her darke attire, Virgins as Sufferers have wept to see [-Arcas.
Letters came last night To a deere Friend of the Duke of Yorkes, That tell blacke tydings Qu.
Come mourne with me, for that I do lament, And put on sullen Blacke incontinent: Ile make a voyage to the Holy-land, To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
Pardon me sir, It was a blacke illfauour'd Fly, Like to the Empresse Moore, therefore I kild him An.
Some of them fought in a blacke Jacke, some of them in a Can; But the chiefest in a blacke pot, like a worthy noble man.
Then he disdaines to shine: for by the Booke He should haue brau'd the East an houre ago, A blacke day will it be to somebody.
Ile ioyne with blacke dispaire against my Soule, And to my selfe, become an enemie Dut.
What blacke Magitian coniures vp this Fiend, To stop deuoted charitable deeds?
So to usblacke night Brings darkenesse, when the Sun retaines his light.
Thinke you I parting with so sad a zeale, Will act so blacke a mischiefe, as to steale Thy Roses thence?
For sinnes blacke danger circles her, Who hath infection in her name.
While I though blackeam still the same, And have ten thousand fires.
Such office the Ægyptian handmaids did Great Cleopatra, when she dying chid The Asps slow venome, trembling she should be By Fate rob'd even of that blacke victory.
Now woman, like a Meteor vapor'd forth From dunghills, doth amaze our eyes; Not shining with a reall worth, But subtile her blacke errors to disguise.
Why lives the gamester, who doth blacke the night With cheats and imprecations?
My eyes, which from each beautious sight Drew Spider-like blacke venome in: Close like the marigold at night Opprest with dew to bath my sin.
In the year 1529, the same King Henry and Queen Katherine were lodged there, whilst the question of their marriage was argued in the Blacke Friers, etc.
Dover, the mayor of London with the aldermen and crafts-men riding in red, with hoods red and white, met with the king on the Blacke hith, coming from Eltham with his prisoners out of France.
One other tower there was also situate on the river of Thames near unto the said Blacke Fryers church, on the west part thereof built at the citizens' charges, but by license and commandment of Edward I.
Then is there a lane between the Blacke Fryers and the Thames, called in the 26th of Edward III.
On the north side whereof is St. Martin's church, and on the south side a turning into the Blacke friars.
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