Ribaldes or Harlottes or evill or wicked persons; one officer of great acco{m}pte in tymes paste, and yet vsed in the courte of France but by one other name, in some parte beinge the office of the marshall of Englande.
In whiche pointe, bothe for orderinge and correctinge the harlottes and evill persons followinge the Courte of Englande, (whiche is the duty of the marshall,) the frenche and wee agree.
There is no evill in the City nor Countrey which the Lord hath not done.
Store up therfore patience against y^e evill day, without which we take offence at y^e Lord him selfe in his holy & just works.
Lyford, and asked him if he thought they had done evill to open his letters; but he was silente, & would not say a word, well knowing what they might reply.
And yet we are willing to expose our selves to shuch eminente dangers as are like to insue, & trust to y^e good providence of God, rather then his name & truth should be evill spoken of for us.
But I will leave it to you to consider what evill this leter would or might have done, had it come to your hands & taken y^e effecte y^e other desired.
I will raise up evill against y^e, and will take thy wives & give them, &c.
But he requited them ill, for he proved after a bitter enimie unto them upon all occasions, and never repayed them any thing for it, to this day, but reproches and evill words.
God give him to see y^e evill in his failings, that he may find mercie by repentance for y^e wrongs he hath done to any, and this pore plantation in spetiall.
But wretch that I am, my torment is beyond all succour, and my evill deserving doth exceed my evill fortune.
Our Indiscreations are our evill fortunes, And nothing sincks us but [our] want of providence.
Yf you would see it; but take through the mallice The evill intended now, now bent upon ye.
Being a true Copy of their evilllives and wicked deeds, taken by the Maior of Feversham and Jurors for the said Inquest.
So this evill counsell pleased these two evil women, and they hid the treasure which Psyches gave them, and tare their haire, renewing their false and forged teares.
But when that Socrates had eaten sufficiently hee waxed very thirsty, for indeed he had well nigh devoured a whole Cheese: and behold evill fortune!
And in suche things, as carry no evill meaning in them, but rather some face of courtesie: reason would and commaundeth, we shoulde rather observe common Custome, then dispute and lay the lawe for them.
And first of all the evill mynd careit be my lord.
Have na evill opinioun of me for that caus, be ressoun ze are the occasion of it zourself; becaus, for my awin particular revenge, I wald not do it to him.
I am in feir quhen I heir him speik; for he assuris himself yat he hes not an evill opinioun of him.
I have had sa lytill tyme that it is evill maid; bot I sall mak ane fairer in the meane tyme.
And as rage doth often confirm in ye human harte an evill purpose, so was ye Divell now more diabolically minded to work his unclean will, and full hejeously fell he to roar and lash his ribald legs with his poyson taile.
As for our nighbour Kirk in England, it is an evill said masse in English, wanting nothing but the liftings.
Melville retorted that they 'doubted of the guidness, and had ower just cause to suspect the evill of it.
And a certain woman looking over the door of a byre or cowhouse, where a neighbour sat milking, shot the calf dead and dried up and sickened the cow, "by the venomous glance of her evill eye.
If I should write to you of all things which promiscuously forerune our ruine, I should over charge my weake head and greeve your tender hart; only this, I pray you prepare for evill tidings of us every day.
And yet we are willing to expose our selves to shuch eminente dangers as are like to insue, & trust to ye good providence of God, rather then his name & truth should be evill spoken of for us.
And, reason good; for, none can apprehend, What Mischiefe doth an Evill Tongue attend.
Then, take it not in evill part, That, with a Blanck, thou answer’d art.
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