But Death who call on her at nede Doth neuer with vaine semblant feed, But when them sorow paineth, So riddes their soules of all distresse Whose heauie weight did them oppresse, That not one griefe remaineth.
Hang him dishonest rascall: I would all of the same straine, were in the same distresse Mist.
Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoan'd, Your widdow-dolour, likewise be vnwept Qu.
I doe pittie his distresse in my smiles of comfort, and leaue him to your Lordship Par.
He seide, 'Arveragus, of gentillesse, 1595 Had lever dye in sorwe and in distresse Than that his wyf were of hir trouthe fals.
And she for sorwe as domb stant as a tree; 1055 So was hir herte shet in hir distresse Whan she remembred his unkindenesse.
The distresse to be kept for that, I wisse it nede not, and it was unlawfully taken.
Sidenote: Henrie earle of Britaine, and the earle of Chester distresse the French kings cariages.
The Englishmen were brought into somedistresse in this iornie, by reason of their vittels in maner spent, and no hope to get more: for the enimies had destroied all the corne before they came.
In distresse and harde aduentures hee practised for pollicie, to make lies to his souldiours, to proue if they coulde preuaile.
Whiles these ladies continued thus in their sorowes, the knight Mendozza toke no rest by day or night, ne ceassed continually to thincke vpon the distresse of the Duchesse.
You are his owne, and what things will he not prouyde in this distresse of yours?
On the other part confider the Duke of Camerino in great distresse and daunger, to passe that strait of death my Brethren did.
In such distresse and doubtfull ieopardy, When Britomart him saw, she ran a pace 8 Vnto his reskew, and with earnest cry, Bad those same sixe forbeare that single enimy.
Of which it were to longe to wryte the particuler circumstaunces of þe mischiefs and disese þat is suffred here to our unportable distresse and hevynesse.
This is the] thurst of fals geting, That last ever in coveiting, And the anguisshe and distresse 5715 With the fire of gredinesse.
Whan any lover doth compleyne, And liveth in distresse and peyne, Than Swete-Thought shal come, as blyve, Awey his angre for to dryve.
Theire bewtyes, though my eye be bleynd at them, Deserve no lesse; I looke on theire distresse And that I pitty.
I have heard him oft enquire for thee his friend, I have heard him sigh, I have seene him weepe for thee, Imagining some mischiefe or distresse Had falne thee since the closets separation.
The lamentable distresse and pitifull perplexitie of the Britains after their ouerthrow, Domitian enuieth Agricola the glorie of his victories, he is subtilie depriued of his deputiship, and Cneus Trebellius surrogated in his roome.
Then being forsaken and left in this distressereferring my self to the mercifull prouidence of God, I shaped my course for England, and vnhoped for of any, God alone releeuing me, I arriued at Dartmouth.
In thisdistresse of famine, the English did somewhat relieue their vitall spirits, by drinking at the springs the fresh water out of certaine wooden cups, out of which they had drunke their Aqua composita before.
And the saide Scipion Affrican wilfully died in armes of chevalrie rathir than to lyve in servage and distresse among his adversaries in Cartage.
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