Will pooreFolkes lye That haue Afflictions on them, knowing 'tis A punishment, or Triall?
See, to beguile the olde-folkes, how the young folkes lay their heads together.
Sir, the maid loues you, and all shall bee well: We must giue folkes leaue to prate: what the goodier Caius.
Peasauns la pouure gens de Fraunce, Poore Market folkes that come to sell their Corne Watch.
Ef I knowed whar to find em, deys some my white folkes lib in dis town.
Now folkes can 'joy dey victuals wid sech goin's on.
De roar of dat cannon was in folkes ears for more'n five days and nights.
After diner, anon they hem avaunced To daunce about, these folkes everichoon; And forth-withal this hevy lover daunced Somtyme with twayn, and somtyme but with oon.
What," sayd the Griffon, "may thee greve That other folkes faren wele?
And if it be fayr, a mans name be eched by moche folkes praysing, and fouler thing that mo folk not praysen?
And so thou sekest reward of folkes smale wordes, and of vayne praysinges.
Grace, glorie, and joye is coming thorow good folkes desertes; and by getting of grace, therin shullen ende.
Syn þat euery wicked shrew {and} for hys wickednesse þe more gredy aftir oþer folkes rycchesse wher so euer it be in any place.
He then charges Folkes with unworthy conduct towards him, and, in brief, he considered that Folkes and Baker were his enemies.
This attack on the Royal Society appears to have been much resented, and Hill's credit consequently was much damaged, for it was considered that Folkes and Baker had befriended him in his earlier days.
When Mr. Folkes came away, about seven o’clock, I came with him, and he said that what had passed might possibly occasion young D.
Quod Pandarus, `For ought I can espyen, 1135 This light, nor I ne serven here of nought; Light is not good for syke folkes yen.
Why trowe ye my fader in this wyse Coveiteth so to see me, but for drede Lest in this toun that folkes me dispyse 1340 By-cause of him, for his unhappy dede?
Besides all this, the olde folkes and poore men within the hospitall, doo bring vpp hennes, chickens, and hogges for their owne recreation and profit, wherein they doo delight themselves.
Folkes done got wiser an' wickeder--dey ain't lak' dey use ter be.
Folkes are always buried so that they head faces the east.
Martin Folkes occupied a prominent position in the literary and scientific worlds as President of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries.
The year 1756 was remarkable for the sale of the library of Martin Folkes by Samuel Baker.
I asked him who it was; he tooke me about the body and said 'One of his folkes that hath left you this daye.
Then for God's sake, let young folkes coll and kisse, When oldest folkes will thinke it not amisse.
Folkes could have seen very few of such pieces, and it would be extremely difficult at present to find a single one; whereas the common shillings of Edward the Sixth remain in great numbers.
Farmer's quotation from Folkes had gone far enough, it would have appeared that the thick shillings mentioned by that writer were pattern-pieces, even originally of great rarity, and never in circulation.
For all discrete nations under the sonne, Do use at thys day as they fyrst begonne: And never doo change, but styll do frequent, Theyr old guyse, what ever fond folkes do invent.
And I will not away, but listen to their song, Yet Merygreeke and my folkes tary very long.
With poore Cocke, theyr boye, they be dryven in such fyts, I feare mee the folkes be not well in theyr wyts.
Adames are not halfe currant neather, as also ourfolkes which came with us have byn sick, except Fatchman, Richard King haveing had his part.
Quod Pandarus, 'for ought I can espyen, 1135 This light nor I ne serven here of nought; Light is not good for syke folkes yen.
But now, yif so be that dignitees and powers be yeven to goode men, the whiche thing is ful selde, what agreable thing is ther in tho 15 dignitees or powers but only the goodnesse of folkes that usen hem?
Circes the enchaunteresse, that chaungeth the bodyes of folkes in-to bestes, to regard and to comparisoun of mutacioun that is maked by 25 vyces); ne the herbes of Circes ne ben nat mighty.
What chylde that day is borne is his Fortune to be doughty and wys, Discrete al-so and sleeghe of deede, To fynde feel[56] folkes mete and weede.
Yonge folkesshal dye alsoo; Shippes in the see, tempest and woo.
This collection was an exceedingly fine one; enriched with many books of the choicest description, which Mr. Folkes had acquired in his travels in Italy and Germany.
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