From thee, deare Talbot, living I did learne The Arts of life, and by thy light discerne The truth, which men dispute.
No unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a Charactar, Remov'd far from our humane sight: But if we stedfast looke, We shall discerne In it as in some holy booke, How man may heavenly knowledge learne.
Ould as I am myne eyes are not so dimme But candiscerne this without spectacles.
Whatsoeuer ye sée about vs, is all firie vnto vs, although you nothing discerne our fire.
Michael, running so neere by Villa Franca, that he might easily discerne the shippes lying there at anker.
And yet these porters, which all things admit, Themselues perceiue not, nor discerne the things; One common power doth in the forehead sit, Which all their proper formes together brings.
But when she sits to iudge the good and ill, And to discerne betwixt the false and true; She is not guided by the Senses' skill, But doth each thing in her owne mirrour view.
Now, lustie yonkers, looke within the glasse,[1532] And tell me if you can discerne your sires.
By this Shaft, they also discerne which was the quicke ground (as they call it) that mooued with the floud, and which the firme, wherein no such Shoad doth lie.
But comming neere to the said Straight, it pleased God to raise at that instant a very darke and mistie fogge, so that one ship could not discerne another, if it were 40.
I discerne 4 Great cause, that carries thee so swift and light.
They had belayed all the coast along for vs, and being dispersed so, were not well to be numbred, but wee might discerne of them aboue an hundreth persons, and had cause to suspect a greater number.
And comming somewhat neerer, they might perceiue certaine tents, and discerne this ensigne to be of mingled colours, blacke and white, after the English Fashion.
Also the coast is so much subiect to broken ground and rockes, especially in the mouth and entrance of euery Harborough, that albeit the Channell be sounded ouer and ouer againe, yet are you neuer the neerer to discerne the dangers.
And being vncertaine at this time of the Generals priuate determinations, the weather being so darke that they could not discerne one another, nor perceiue which way he wrought, betooke themselues to this course for best and safest.
M137) When as we were on the toppe of it, we might discerne and plainly see thirtie leagues about.
That certaine fountains of Island do somtime encrease & flow vp to the brinke: sometimes againe they fall so lowe that you can skarse discerne them to be fountaines.
When others doubted least he might suffer these things of a liuing man, they asked him how he could discerne a dead man from a liuing?
I discerne not onely by their owne growth, but also by comparing them with the bulke of other trees.
Gather euery kind seuerally by it selfe, for all will not keepe alike, and it is hard to discerne them, when they are mingled.
Pole waggishly triumphed in having beene y'e firste to discerne the spectacle.
How difficulte it is to discerne y'e supernatural from y'e incredible!
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