But what so sure she was, she worthy was To be the fourth with those three other placed, Yet she was certes but a countrey lasse; Yet she all other countrey lasses farre did passe.
Therefore Sir, I greet you well Your countrey kin, and you entirely pray 8 Of pardon for the strife, which late befell Betwixt vs both vnknowne.
But if of daunger which hereby doth dwell, 2 And +homebred euill ye+ desire to heare, Of a straunge man I can you tidings tell, 4 That wasteth all this countrey farre and neare.
So God helpe Warwicke, as he loues the Land, And common profit of his Countrey Yor.
You haue receyued many wounds for your Countrey Coriol.
My Lord, Ile yeelde my selfe to prison willingly, Or vnto death, to do my Countrey good King.
May neuer glorious Sunne reflex his beames Vpon theCountrey where you make abode: But darknesse, and the gloomy shade of death Inuiron you, till Mischeefe and Dispaire, Driue you to break your necks, or hang your selues.
Boy, I doe loue thatCountrey girle that I tooke in the Parke with the rationall hinde Costard: she deserues well Boy.
Your Noble Tullus Auffidius will appeare well in these Warres, his great Opposer Coriolanus being now in no request of his countrey Volce.
London and the Countrey Carbonadoed and Quartred into severall Characters.
Therefore in declaring my observations of the customs of Dutchland, Poland and Italy, the buskins of the women was not forgot, and what countrey weed I thought best becoming gentlewomen.
The events of the story take place among kings and shepherds: "In the countrey of Bohemia there raygned a king called Pandosto.
To a North Countrey Tune, or, I have a good old mother at home.
My dearest, tell unto me:' 'I am going a far journey, Some strange countrey to see.
And in this countrey there was a certeine aged man called Senex de monte, who round about two mountaines had built a wall to inclose the sayd mountaines.
Travelling on further towards the south, I arrived at a certaine countrey called Melistorte, which is a very pleasant and fertile place.
Neere unto the said Iland (Java) is another countreycalled Panten, or Tathalamasin.
Or do ye intend to forsake Malta now, And visit your own Countrey fruitful Spaine.
A Turkish Captive of incomparable beauty, And without question, in her Countrey Noble; Which, as companion to thy faithful Moor, I would have given thee for thy slave.
I will see your Mill gelded, and his Stones fry'd in steaks, E'r I deceive the Countrey so: have I not my part to study?
She is course Madam, after her countrey guise, And were she in fine cloths-- La.
It was a Miller and a Lord That had a scabbard and a sword He put it up in the Countrey word The Miller and his daughter.
Keep your self close i'th' Countrey for a while sirrah.
Indeed, there it speaks shrewdly for thee; the Countrey expecting.
There is no evill in the City nor Countrey which the Lord hath not done.
When Hatteraik came to receive his wadges, he told the Lady, 'Your Brother William shal quickly goe off the Countrey but shall never return.
After that this Warlock had abused the Countrey for a long time, he was at last apprehended at Dunbar, and brought into Edinburgh, and burnt upon the Castle Hill.
Ordinance then shot off, but with the willing hearts of all the people of the Towne, and of the Countrey thereabout; and we not sparing our Ordinance (with the powder wee had left) to requite and answere them againe.
During this time Captaine Hinder was sent with some chosen out of euery company into the countrey for prouisions, whereof he brought in good store, and returned without losse.
And may it not bee thought more fitting for vs in these times to loose our trades of Cloth, then by suffering these mischiefes, to put in hazard whether we shall haue a countrey left to make cloth in or no?
Upon this Information Master Mompesson sent for the fellow, and ask'd him by what Authority he went up and down the Countreyin that manner, demanding money, and keeping a clutter with his Drum?
Beasts are more kinde than men, sheepe seeke not blood, But countrey caytives kill their countreyes good.
Here I thought good, before I make an end of this my booke, to declare some things which India and the countrey farther Eastward do bring forth.
Here the two riuers ioyned together begin to be eight or nine miles broad: here also it beginneth to ebbe and flow, and the water ouerflowing maketh the countrey all about very fertile of corne, rice, pulse, and dates.
Countrey to see our ship, and the King sent vs word that hee was desirous to heare vs shoote off 5.
The king is a Gentile, his name is Suckel Counse: his countrey is great, and lieth not far from Cochin China: for they say they haue pepper from thence.
The first day we arriued there, this Stropene accused vs that we were spies sent from Don Antonio, besides diuers other lies: nothwithstanding if we had beene of any other countrey then of England, we might freely haue traded with them.
The countrey is very lowe, and hath many faire riuers.
From Satagam I trauelled by the countrey of the king of Tippara or porto Grande, with whom the Mogores or Mogen haue almost continuall warres.
I went from Bengala into the countreyof Couche, [Marginal note: Couche: this seemeth to be Quicheu, accounted by some among the prouinces of China.
And the countrey fast without the towne belongeth to the Malayos, which is a kinde of proud people.
His water is very sweete and pleasant, and thecountrey adioyning very fruitfull.
Many could I recite: But I deferre the precise and determined handling of this matter: being loth to detect the Folly & Mallice of my Natiue Countrey men.
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