Here lies the man whose horse did gaine The bell in race on Salisbury plaine; Reader, I know not whether needs it, You or your horse rather to reade it.
He had a device to gaine proselytes, by preaching in his dreame; which was much noised abroad, and talked of as a miracle.
Hast thou conspired with thy brother too, That for thine owne gaine shouldst defend mine honor?
For by the contrary motion of the earth hee will gaine ground.
So also one the other side they that are at sea by degrees doe loose or gaine the sight of the Land: As for example.
Be patient Yorke, if we conclude a Peace It shall be with such strict and seuere Couenants, As little shall the Frenchmen gaine thereby.
Damsell of France, I thinke I haue you fast, Vnchaine your spirits now with spelling Charmes, And try if they can gaine your liberty.
But if I thriue, the gaine of my attempt, The least of you shall share his part thereof.
My Husband lost his life, to get the Crowne, And often vp and downe my sonnes were tost For me to ioy, and weepe, their gaine and losse.
Sir for my thoughts, you haue them il to friend, Till your deeds gaine them fairer: proue your honor, Then in my thought it lies Dian.
And how mightily some other times, wee drowne our gaine in teares, the great dignitie that his valour hath here acquir'd for him, shall at home be encountred with a shame as ample Cap.
Thus I hope in God to make more profit and gaine this voyage, then in two voyages to Angola: for I haue solde most of my hats for two duckets and a halfe and for three ducats.
Sidenote: Gaine of ten thousand ducats for the laying out of one thousand.
Sundry weeks we did gaine so much by this means besides our wages, that many of vs became very rich, and were worth three thousand, or foure thousand Pezos, for we liued and gained thus in those Mines some three or foure yeeres.
So one thousand ducats of Spanish commodities will gaine tenne thousand ducats.
If I had brought any great store of wine, I should haue made a great gaine of it: for I should haue gotten eight reals for one.
It is a woonderfull thing to behold the great gaine and profit which is gotten in this riuer and in this countrey.
The present Age, and future Ages too, Might gaine have had, from what they thought to doe.
Then, higher, and still higher strive to raise His Contemplations Eyes, till they ascend To gaine a glimpse of those eternall Rayes, To which all undepraved Spirits tend.
These Mariners of Captaine Bourdet put mine in the head, that if they had such Barkes as mine were, they might gaine very much in the Iles of the Antilles, and make an exceeding profitable voyage.
This done my Lieutenant hasted to gaineground in such sort as I haue already said.
But as the British forces drew near to New York, the patriotism of Gaine began to cool; and during the whole course of the Revolutionary war, his Mercury afforded very accurate indications of the state of the contest.
In 1763, Gainewas arraigned by the Assembly for publishing a part of its proceedings without permission, and withal incorrectly.
His course was a fruitful theme for the wags of the day; and at the peace, a poetical petition from Gaine to the Senate of the State, setting forth his life and conduct, was got up with a good deal of talent and humor.
Smile gentle heauens or strike vngentle death, That we maie die vnlesse we gaine the daie: What fatall starre malignant frownes from heauen Vpon the harmelesse line of Yorkes true house?
The Mayden seeying that hee was not dysposed to shewe some part of wylling mind to gaine his lyuing by that prefixed scyence shut the portall Doore, and went her way.
Fisher man) "must a Prince be loued for gaine and good turnes, rather than for hys Iustice and curtesie?
And notwithstanding yee see hir gaine to serue hir turne nothing at all but to the perpetuall reproch of hir name, and the slaunder sutch as ill speakers and enimies of womankinde, do burden the Sexe withall.
And it must needes ryse and redounde to your gaine and preferment, for that I heare you say the King's Maiestye doth already knowe you.
Thus you see that she, whome honest Amitye and long service could lytle induce to compassion and desire to giue some ease vnto hir moste earnest louer, yelded hir selfe to couetous gaine and greadinesse for to encrease hir Rychesse.
King Darius whilome, for a little garment, receiued in gift by Silofon the Samien, recompenced him wyth the gaine and royall dignity of that City, and made him soueraine Lord thereof, and of the Isle of Samos.
Nor was his gaine considerable in taking the Town of Saint Martha, the Isle and chief town of Jamaica, whence he sailed more than thirty leagues up the river Rio-dolci, where he met with great extremity.
Surely such Fictions keep up the best Park of Popery (Purgatory), whereby their fairest Game and greatest Gaine is preserved.
I still had ruth on widowes tears, I succour'd babes of tender yeares; 70 And never look'd for other gaine But love and thankes for all my paine.
For these are complements that gaine Gentlemen no mean respect and for which indeede they are more worthily noted, I ensure you, then for any skill that they haue in learning.
Those three trades gaine by you more then Vsurers do by thirty in the hundred: You spend the wines of the one, you make suppers for the other, and change your Gold into White money with the third.
Oh, it is a pittious crie: I would not be there againe, to heare it as I have done, for thegaine of Europe.
Manie of the Englishmen also that came with them to the field, were saued by the enimies, to the end they might gaine somewhat by their ransomes, [Sidenote: Simon Dun.
Now they hoped, if y^ey ended with me, to gaine M^r.
ES] But it seemeth he would not parte with it, supposing it too great a sume, and y^t he might easily gaine it from you.
Allerton did alone, except they liked it; but if he did it alone, they would notgaine say it.
Deare Tom, thy booke was like to come to light, Ere I could gainebut one halfe howre to write; They go before whose wits are at their noones, And I come after bringing Salt and Spoones.
Then unto Satyran she was adjudged, Who was right glad to gaine so goodly meed: But Blandamour thereat full greatly grudged, And litle prays'd his labours evill speed, That for to winne the saddle lost the steed.
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