It was no more then promisse, and I shoold Fayle in my goodnes not to see that doone.
Our noble fownder out of his greate charity And woonted goodnes begg'd him a reprieve!
Better and better, goodnes never mends so fast in the carrying: nine!
For one chyld lost, whose goodnes might have blest And bin an honor to our family, To bringe mee home a cuple of loose thinges!
And so in al thynges, he praieth vnto the infinite power, deuine wisedome, & goodnes of the maker, wherof he perceiueth moste euident tokens in thynges that bee here created.
Augustine) shal fynde mercie at the handes of god, whiche haue entised and allured other vnto goodnes and vertue.
Come, I will followe hym: when Charles dothe flye From honor, where shallgoodnes hope to lye?
Then, if it please your goodnes to withdrawe And fytt hys hyhgnes chamber, I will watche And call you at hys wakynge.
The land is in situationgoodnes and fairenesse like the other: it hath woods like the other, thinne and full of diuers sorts of trees: but not sweete, because the countrey is more Northerly and colde.
For when men know the goodnes of the wyne, 372 T'is needlesse for the hoast to haue a sygne.
His goodnes of nature and willingnes to instruct any one that was willing to be informed and modestly desired it, which I am a witnesse of as to my owne part and also to others.
He was not only a man of vast learning, but of great goodnes and charity; the parish and all his friends will have a great losse in him.
That incomparable man for goodnes and universality of learning, Sir Matthew Hales, Lord Chief Justice of England, hath writt the description of Gloucestershire, an elaborate piece, and ready for the presse.
And do he never so many good dedes, bicause goodly is away, his goodnes is nat rekened.
Certaynly, his noble sayinges 255 can I not amende; in goodnes of gentil manliche speche, without any maner of nycete of +storiers imaginacion, in witte and in good reson of sentence he passeth al other makers.
For in 105 many countrees litel is London in knowing or in spech; and yet among oon maner of people may nat such fame in goodnes come; for as many as praysen, commenly as many lacken.
Ye, ye,' quod I, 'I fynde in no lawe to mede and rewarde in goodnes the gilty of desertes.
As goddes goodnes no man tell might, Wryte ne speke, ne think in thought, 1070 So, hir falshed and hir unright May no man tell, that ever god wrought.
Now, Master Parson, pleasyth your goodnes To tell us some tale of myrth or sadnes, 530 For our pastyme, in way of communycacyon.
In heven and yerth honoured be the name Of Jupyter, who of his godlygoodnes Hath set this mater in so goodly frame, That every wyght shall have his desyre, doutles.
But if it so be as you say, I do praise the goodnes of God, which hath preuented the mishap that nowe I am fallen into, in shewing me by your words, the hart which I did not know.
Wherefore the goodnes of God (which is perfect charitie and true loue) had pitie vpon her sorrowe, and regarded her pacience in such wise, as within few daies after the Bastarde died in the pursute of the other ladie's Loue.
The son also the same wayes wyl ensue And that moche rather than goodnes or vertue Therfore it nedeth that better prouysion.
But for that he coude nat fynde certayne ende of goodnes and hyest felicite in naturall thinges: nor induce men to the same, he gaue the hye contemplacions of his mynde to moral vertues.
It may please his highnes of his accustomed goodnes and great clemencie to consider of the same, and to giue the said company so much as shal seeme good vnto his Maiestie, towards their said losses.
To the third, you are answered by the Emperors Maiestie himselfe, that his great goodnes and fauour againe vnto the merchants shall be restored, and the same to be knowen by his gratious letters of priuilege now againe granted.
April 7th, John Spenser cam to me, from Venys new returned, and told me of the Venetian philosopher and the goodnes of his gold.
Who beleueth there is no second person, that desireth better to acquite the goodnes and preferment which I haue receyued of your Lordship, then I do.
Yo'are a man In whome the glorious soule of goodnesmoves With such a spacious posture that no woman, But such a squemish baby as my daughter, Would be most fortunate to enrich their choyse With one so much deserving.
Theis, yf you please, the last I shall pay to him, I would present him with, by what Attorney Your goodnes shall prescribe me.
Yare full of goodnes & have layd out much In provision for the whole state.
O Clariana, can There be a motive able to convert This pretious Christall temple, built for purity And goodnes adoration, to a faine For Idoll falshoods worship?
Was so dishonorable, So sacrilegious to defile a Temple Of such a beauty & goodnes as she was!
Your goodnes Is to nice ore me; Ime exceeding well; Only some erring cogitations Trouble my braine a little.
But graût of thy grete goodnes / that the prayers [with] all other good dedes done by me / or to be done may gracyously profyte me.
Blessyd lorde I knowleche [that] I haue synned ayenst thy goodnes thus and thus Rehersynge thy synnes.
For if good were not praised more than ill, 455 None would choosegoodnes of his owne freewill.
And by an over long silence, we knowe what pleasure it is to speake: so when you beholde my grose and rude maners: you shall better Judge, what goodnes and vertue there is in courtious behaviours and fashions.
And, The goodnes of wordes consisteth either in their sound, or pronouncing: or, in their sense and meaning.
And though it did him no harme, that was more, the goodnes of his strong braine: then the continencie of a sober man.
And as I have saide from the beginning: Eache man desireth to bee well thought of, Albeit there bee no valoure or goodnesin him.
And without doubte hee could meete with fewe, that might bee compared ingoodnes to him: respecting his vertues, that did excel beyond measure.
Bycause Goodnes it selfe, when it excedeth muche, is ever envide of some.
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