Enuious aboue all measure; nothing was so grieuous to his eyes as the prosperitie, nothing so harsh to his eares as the commendations of others.
For it standeth not with their enuious nature to alter their malicious maners; as the old prouerbe saith truelie of them: Celtica natura semper sequitur sua iura.
I thought no more to offend you, than the man which you neuer knew, although you haue bene deceiued by colored words, vttered by those that be enuiousof my happe, and Enimies of your ioy, who haue filled your minde full of false report.
Follow your enuious courses, men of Malice; You haue Christian warrant for 'em, and no doubt In time will finde their fit Rewards.
Berowne is like an enuious sneaping Frost, That bites the first borne infants of the Spring Ber.
Beside, I feare me, if thy thoughts were sifted, The King, thy Soueraigne, is not quite exempt From enuious mallice of thy swelling heart Winch.
The ruthlesse Flint doth cut my tender feet, And when I start, the enuious people laugh, And bid me be aduised how I treade.
Who markes the waxing tide, Grow waue by waue, Expecting euer when some enuious surge, Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
And if there had not bene some enuious persons nere the kyng, which studied and practised his ouerthrow, al other would haue deemed him vnworthy of death.
Are not these woods More free from perill then the enuious Court?
Yes Sir, as well as you dare patronage The enuious barking of your sawcie Tongue, Against my Lord the Duke of Somerset Vern.
The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.
An enuious neighbour is easie to finde, His cumbersome fetches are seldome[2] behinde.
This said, her blushing face sinkes in her shroud like Cinthia muffel'd in an enuious cloud.
England bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beates backe the enuious siedge Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With Inky blottes, and rotten Parchment bonds.
But the fame of these twoo Oratours, nei- ther the enuious nature can diminishe their praise, nor the ignoraunt be of them a arbitrator or iudge, so worthely hath all ages raised fame, and commendacion of their vertues.
Thusidides speakyng, in the commendacion of famous men sheweth: as concernyng the fame of noble men, whose [Sidenote: The enuious manne.
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