Their push a bubble vp doth reare, The bubble driues the Fly to brinke: So Fish in vaine deuoure the ayre, Swallowes in vayne the water drinke, While Fly escapes, this sport I take.
It was well knowen after the death of the Emperour Henry the seuenth, in a famine continuing three whole yeres, how the parents would deuoure their children, and the children their parents, and that especially in Polonia and Bohemia.
Germany, insomuch that the father was glad todeuoure his owne sonne.
This, monster will cary away anddeuoure both men and horse.
From thence wee went to Sierra leona, where be monstrous fishes called Sharkes, which will deuoure men.
For he brought it to passe by his cunning, that he séemed to deuoure an armed man with his horse, and all his harnesse, and also a carte loaden with hay, togither with the horse and carter.
Sidenote: VVhich are people that eate and deuoure men.
Those beastes which were created of God for the nouryshment of man doe nowe deuoure man.
Nothing therefore can be more vnlikelie to be true, than that these noisome creatures are nourished amongst vs to deuoure our wormes, which doo not abound much more in England than elsewhere in other countries of the maine.
Of all these there are none more preiudiciall to their neighbours that dwell in the same water, than the pike and eele, which commonlie deuoure such fish or frie and spawne as they may get and come by.
When all these dances were ended, they fell on eating with such a greedinesse, that they seemed rather to deuouretheir meate then to eate it, for they had neither eaten nor drunke the day of the feast, nor the two dayes following.
Thus it hath pleased God to fight for vs and to defend the iustice of our cause, against the ambicious and bloody pretenses of the Spaniard, who seeking to deuoure all nations, are themselues deuoured.
And, among the hurtful witches, he saith there is one sort more beastlie than any kind of beasts, saving woolues: for these usuallie deuoureand eate yong children and infants of their owne kind.
The time you may so hoodwinke: We haue willing Dames enough: there cannot be That Vulture in you, to deuoure so many As will to Greatnesse dedicate themselues, Finding it so inclinde Mal.
The present Warres deuoure him, he is growne Too proud to be so valiant Sicin.
Of all these there are none more preiudiciall to their neighbours that dwell in the same water, than the pike and éele, which commonlie deuoure such fish or frie and spawne as they may get and come by.
Suddeine they see from midst of all the Maine, 6 The surging waters like a mountaine rise, And the great sea puft vp with proud disdaine, 8 To swell aboue the measure of his guise, As threatning to deuoure all, that his powre despise.
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