Although we hide our sinnes from mortall men, Whose glasse of knowledge is the face of man, The eye of heaven beholdes our wickednesse, And will no doubt revenge the innocent, Rach.
Your Glasse may flatter ye, but truely I will not; your head is not a hayre better than it should be.
She that hath no glasse to dresse her head will use a bowle of water, she that wanteth a sleeke stone to smooth her linnen will take a pebble.
He was author of the “Cosmographical Glassecontaining the pleasant principles of Cosmographie Geographie Hydrographie or Navigation,” London, 1599.
Whan the poure man sawe that he was condemned, pytously complaynyng he sayd to the Judge: syr, I gaue you a glasse of oyle, and ye promysed by your faith, the matter shulde passe with me.
To whom the iuge sayde: for a trouth there came a hogge into my house, whiche founde the glasse of oyle, and ouerthrewe and brake it: and so through spyllynge of the oyle I cleane forgot the.
Mrs. Glasse would be Hannah Glasse, of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, 1747.
Higginson, however, writing in 1629, asks for "glasse for windowes.
It was to be compared vnto an ouen where glasse is made.
The Christall glasse of christian reformation is a dull book with dull illustrations, which are of the nature of emblems, made ugly by party spirit.
And now me thinks we ape Augustus state, So ugly we his high worth imitate, Monkey his godlike glories; so that we Keep light and form with such deformitie, As I have seen an arrogant baboon With a small piece of glasse zany the sun.
Warren and anon a Perspective glasse maker, of whom we, every one, bought a pocket glasse.
After dinner I to the office and there late, and much troubled to have 100 seamen all the afternoon there, swearing below and cursing us, and breaking the glasse windows, and swear they will pull the house down on Tuesday next.
The merchant sett my lorde a glasse Soe well apparent in his sight, And on the morrowe, by nine of the clocke, He shewed him Sir Andrewe Barton knight.
Ye windowe was much clere glasse wyth colours in ye midst under golden canopyes in ye heades of the pannels.
Then y^e grasse schal bee as glasse And y^e schal see y^e mysterie Deepe downe hit lyes ffrom pryinge eies And safelie slepes, while vigil kepes Y^e company.
So also the Alchimist counterfeits gold, siluer, and all other mettals, the Lapidarie pearles and pretious stones by glasse and other substances falsified, and sophisticate by arte.
It giveth both inwards and outwards a clearer light then glasse, and for this respect is better than either glasse or horne; for that it neither breaketh like glasse, nor yet will burne like the lanthorne.
This they cut into pieces, and so tear it into thin flakes, which naturally it is apt for, and so use it for glasse lanthorns and such like.
Some boyle roses in oyle and kepe it, some do fyll a glasse with roses and oyle and they boyle it in a caudron full of water and this oyle is good.
Some stampe fresh roses with oyle and they put it in a vessel of glasse and set it in the s[=u]ne IIII.
Twas Henry that did sett up all the glasse scutchions about the house: quære if he did not build it?
I have made as good glasse of this sparre as the Venice glasse.
It was this earle that did set up all the painted glasse scutchions about the house.
Sir William Dugdale told me he finds that painting in glasse came first into England in King John's time.
While he playes with his glasse he whistles with his larke-call of silver, a tympanum of about the diameter of a threepence.
Before the Reformation I believe there was no county or great town in England but had glasse painters.
A glasse He sett, that may be seene Whether you sail by day or night; And to-morrowe, I sweare, by nine of the clocke You shall meet with Sir Andrewe Barton knight.
The commodities that we caried in this voyage were cloth both linnen and woollen, yron worke of sundry sorts, Manillios or bracelets of copper, glasse beades, and corrall.
Diuers of the people did weare about their neckes great beades of glasse of diuerse colours.
And took up (which I keep by me) a piece of glasse of Mercers' Chappell in the streete, where much more was, so melted and buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
Well, by and by the child is brought and christened Katharine, and I this day on this occasion drank a glasse of wine, which I have not professedly done these two years, I think, but a little in the time of the sicknesse.
But in regard thesse 3 years I had possest I had never given him in any accompt of my debursements on the said house, in glasse windows, broads or others, he ordered me to give him in the compt theirof that he might pay it me.
After he had calmed a litle they desyred his to consider that the glasse was broken, but that he was not broken; and consequently that he was not glasse.
The partition that divides one roome from another is of strange glasse that showes a man his body in some of them 5 tymes, so that I saw in one of them 5 John Lauders.
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