Did I deserue no more then a fooles head, Is that my prize, are my deserts no better?
I doe in birth deserue her, and in fortunes, In graces, and in qualities of breeding: But more then these, in loue I doe deserue.
Why did you so, doth not the Gentleman Deserue as full as fortunate a bed, As euer Beatrice shall couch vpon?
Praie thee sweete Mistris Margaret, deserue well at my hands, by helping mee to the speech of Beatrice Mar.
Ah, how much might the man deserue of mee that would right her!
And whē they saye oure dedes with grace deserue heuen/ saye thou [with] Paule Ro.
That for Tragedie, the Lord of Buckhurst, & Maister Edward Ferrys for such doings as I haue sene of theirs do deserue the hyest price: Th'Earle of Oxford and Maister Edwardes of her Maiesties Chappell for Comedy and Enterlude.
And truely ill they do deserue to be belou'd of God, That neither loue nor stand in awe of his assured rod: Which though be long, yet plagues at last the vile and beastly sort.
There is one Howell a gentleman of Flintshire in the compasse of this iurisdiction, who is bound to giue an harpe of siluer yearelie to the best harper in Wales, but did anie bishop thinke you deserue that in the popish time?
Well you deseru'd: They welldeserue to haue, That know the strong'st, and surest way to get.
So farre be mine, my most redoubted Lord, As my true seruice shall deserue your loue Rich.
In each of them it was a bloody act, Yet they deserue (to speake my minde of both) Most pardon that were bound thereto by oath.
Thanks to you both; you both deserueso well As I want skill your worthinesse to tell.
Let Italy take heed, the New-moone threats, To reare his hornes on Romes great Capitall, And doth not Rome deserue such rough defeats, That should be mother of compassion all?
Cruell to him that merrits curtesie, loathed of thee that doth deserue all loue, Basely reiected, scorn'd most churlishly, that honors thee aboue the Saints aboue.
Farewell Monsieur, I haue spoken better of you, then you haue or will to deserue at my hand, but we must do good against euill Par.
Ile no more drumming, a plague of all drummes, onely to seeme to deserue well, and to beguile the supposition of that lasciuious yong boy the Count, haue I run into this danger: yet who would haue suspected an ambush where I was taken?
Yea ||but althoughe all the whole worlde be full of suche fooles, a man can scaselye fynde one whiche can abyde the name of a foole, and yet they deserue to be called so for asmoche as they hate not the thynge.
Suche fellowes thynke they deserue prayse for the thynge, and yet for all that they can not abyde the name dewe to the thinge whiche they deserue.
And fynally to conclude howe wyse be they whiche for a lytle shorte transytorye pleasure of this lyfe deserue euerlastynge tormentes and punyshementes?
Then by iudgement thus your strife shall end: You both deserueand both shall haue reward.
In-steed of watching, Ile deserue more golde By fetching Don Lorenzo to this match.
Young prince, although thy fathers hard misdeedes In keeping backe the tribute that he owes Deserue but euill measure at our hands, Yet shalt thou know that Spaine is honorable.
I wish that they would likewise deserue praise, for getting, and imploying their riches, in some industrious trade, to the good of their Countrie, as the Harbours oportunitie inuiteth them.
Then do the iudge command the bedelles to giue him so many whippes as hee doth deserue for the neglecting of his office.
In the foreward go the 8 Pilots before with a Chaus, which hath foure knaues, and ech knaue carrieth a sinew of a bul, to the end that if occasion requireth, the bastonado may be giuen to such as deserue the same.
I I sir Iohn, I see you will not faile, 10 Therefore you deserue far better then our loues, But it grieues me for your late crosses.
I shall deserue this better yet, in giuing My Lord some counsell, (if he please to heare it) 15 Then I shall doe with pleading.
Why does your Lordship thinke, the mouing of A cause more honest then this Court had euer The honor to determine, can deserue 95 A checke like this?
I call you not to that I will shrinke from my selfe, I will deserue Your thankes, or suffer with you--O how bravely That sudden fire of anger shewes in you!
My intents 135 Madam, deserue not this; nor do I stay To be the whetstone of your wit: preserue it To spend on such, as know how to admire Such coloured stuffe.
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