They would cry out, 'If we this place shall leaue, Then shall we breake our tender nauill strings; How shall we then our nourishment receiue, Sith our sweet food no other conduit brings?
Or that one penall law by Adam broke, Should make God breake His owne eternall Law; The setled order of the World reuoke, And change all forms of things, which He foresaw?
Also thei that breake horses haue their termes and theyr soundes theyr hadlynges, and other knackes to breake their wyldnes, wyth all.
At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting that he shoulde haue shaken me of and put me to scilence with his crabid wordes.
I make a meane to tel my tale after this fashyon, that he shall promise me, he shal take no displeasure wyth my thynge, that I a foolyshe woman shall breake vnto hym, that pertayneth eyther to hys helthe worshyppe or welth.
If the doore be eyther bolted or lockt, if it be not opened vnto them when they wyl, they wyl breake the same open to his farther cost.
And those are either a Feare of the consequence of breaking their word; or a Glory, or Pride in appearing not to need to breake it.
For the purpose to breake the Law, is some degree of Contempt of him, to whom it belongeth to see it executed.
All Friday and the night following we sayled with a scant winde, and on Saturday at breake of day we were betweene two points of land which make a bay, wherein we saw before and behinde foure or fiue great and small Islands.
Ioseph by breake of day: they abode not any fight after a fewe shot, and all being dismissed but onely Berreo and his companion, I brought them with me abord, and at the instance of the Indians I set their new citie of S.
The next morning before breake of day we sailed still along the coast to the Northwest vntil euening, and ranne about some 15.
Two of the brigandines, which sailed that night with all their sailes, by breake of day had ouershot the Riuer of Panuco without seeing it.
And if by this height and course thou bring thyselfe nigh to the shore, feare not to bring thy ship into 18 or 20 fadomes, for all the coast is cleane: and there are no more dangers, but such as the sea doth breake vpon.
Oh would she breakefrom compasse of my breast, For neuer shall I haue more ioie.
But I would breake an hundred othes to raigne [eab011] one yeare.
Breake off the parlie, for scarse I can refraine the execution of my big swolne Hart, against that Clifford there, that Cruell child-killer.
This shoulder was ordained so thicke to heaue, And heaue it shall some waight or breake my backe, Worke thou the waie, and thou shalt execute.
Ile tell thee: Life and death, I am asham'd That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus, That these hot teares, which breake from me perforce Should make thee worth them.
I had rather breake mine owne, Good my Lord enter Lear.
If it be for none of all these causes but vpon some sodaine occasion that moues a man to breake of his tale, then thus.
Ye haue another auricular figure of defect, and is when we begin to speake a thing, and breake of in the middle way, as if either it needed no further to be spoken of, or that we were ashamed, or afraide to speake it it out.
Batten, to breake the rule and custom of the Company in choosing their Masters by succession, he would have brought in Sir W.
For they did toss and tumble and spoil, and breake things in hold to a great losse and shame to come at the fine goods, and did take a man that knows where the fine goods were, and did this over and over again for many days, Sir W.
I shall not breakeyour bidding, good my Lord: Where are my other men?
Yea and the beleif of the harte is that nature that it cã not lye hydd / but must of necessite breake forth to be confessed with the mouthe.
Let them therfore beware of this bottomles pytt which feare to breake their neckes.
Morouer I wold it wer well knowen vnto these men / that it is no true faythe which doth notbreake forthe in workinge that worke which dothe agree with faithe.
Then breake into it alum glasse and put in a little of the pouder of aloes hepatica.
Shee led upp her souldiers in battaile array, Gainst three times theyr number by breake of the daye; Seven howers in skirmish continued shee: Was not this a brave bonny lasse, Mary Ambree?
But soone after this, by breake of the day The knight had from Rumford stole Bessy away.
But they cannot at one time breake forth, both out of the mountaine it selfe, and neare vnto the mountaine.
Also that it would please his highnes not to giue credite vnto false and vntrue reports, by such as seeke to sowe dissension, and breake friendship betwixt the Queenes highnesse, and his Maiestie.
To the second, his Maiesty willeth you to vnderstand that he hath not, nor will not hereafter be moued to breake friendship with the Queenes Maiesty, without good and iust cause.
To breake the trade betwixt the Venetians and the whole company of the Armenians it is not possible, vnlesse the worshipful will finde some meanes to receiue of them yerely to the number of 100.
If I trauell but foure foot by the squire further a foote, I shall breake my winde.
Why what a Waspe-tongu'd & impatient foole Art thou, to breakeinto this Womans mood, Tying thine eare to no tongue but thine owne?
But sith there is no enemy in the field, and that but simple suspicion doth assayle me, why breake I not the same, and deface the entier remembraunce of the lightnesse of my brayne?
Zilia which was not wonte to receyue very ofte sutch Ambassades, at the firste was in mind to breake the Letters, and to retourne the Messanger wythout aunswere to hir shame.
Giue me leaue, I beseeche you, to open the same agayne, and to breake the Lyne, whych letteth the liberty of your Speache.
That is, To violate orbreake fayth, is a thing detestable.
For which cause vnderstanding that his gracious enimy was gone into the Countrey, he thoughte well to consyder of his determynatyon, and to breake wyth hir in hys absence, the better to Execute the same, vppon his nexte retourne to the Citye.
See what an offered occasion I haue, which wil holde mee excused, to breake foorth and doo violence vnto you.
But I must breake of, having only thus touched a few, as it were, heads of things.
Roger Williams, wherin he assures them that y^e warr would presenly breake forth, & y^e whole country would be all of a flame.
It is time to looke aboute us, before y^e wrath of y^e Lord breake forth to utter destruction.
Vane,) I hear breake of, and with harty saluts to, &c.
Yea, meister, but they will not breake the ground.
I wil them breke, for the cuckold thi maisters sake; And if they will breake the grounde,[L158] Thou shalt have thre pence for a pound.
And if they have followed the use of their time: then let not us breake the fashions of ours.
And leave to scratche whereas the scabs of sinne breake out.
Renowned Queene, With patience calme the Storme, While we bethinke a meanes to breake it off Marg.
But for a Kingdome any Oath may be broken: I would breake a thousand Oathes, to reigne one yeere Richard.
But do not breake your Oathes, for of that sinne, My milde intreatie shall not make you guiltie.
Poore Queene, How loue to me, and to her Sonne, Hath made her breake out into termes of Rage.
And if the duke should breake and go from the premisses, then are they altogither to ceasse from dooing him any seruice, till he reforme his misdooings.
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