The thridde houre inequal that Palamon Bigan to Venus temple for to goon, Up roos the sonne, and up roos Emelye, And to the temple of Diane gan hye.
Therfor I wol gon slepe an houre or tweye, 3685 And al the night than wol I wake and pleye.
Then there is no true Louer in the Forrest, else sighing euerie minute, and groaning euerie houre wold detect the lazie foot of time, as wel as a clocke Orl.
My faire Rosalind, I come within an houre of my promise Ros.
When I did heare The motley Foole, thus morall on the time, My Lungs began to crow like Chanticleere, That Fooles should be so deepe contemplatiue: And I did laugh, sans intermission An houre by his diall.
Pity then dull we, we that better know, Will a more serious houre on thee bestow, Why should not Beaumont in the Morning please, As well as Plautus, Aristophanes?
And after that the kynge toke of theyr visers and than they daunced with gentylmen of Fraunce an houre after.
Therfore not thinking it safe for me to continue theire till night, I resolved anhoure after he was gone to seeke some other hideing place.
The king that al this world shop thoru his holi mi[gh]tte, He wite houre soule from then heuele wi[gh]tte.
I, father, said Roberto, it is the worme of conscience, that vrges you at the last houre to remember your life, that eternall life may follow your repentance.
Weele all to hazard, said Roberto, and / brother you shall make one for an houre or two: contented quoth he.
Then since your fatall houre must surely come, Surely your head ly low as mine, Your bright meridian soon decline, Beseech the mighty PAN to guard you home.
Man alone, poor wretch [nature] hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth day to cry and wrawle presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this world.
And the kniáľšte knew her thenne wele, and for joye fel doune upon hire, and said, Blessid be thow, and the houre in the whiche I fyrste knew the.
That night they quartered in the woods, he still expecting (as he had done all this long time of his imprisonment) every houre to be put to one death or other; for all their feasting.
And at this houre hee taken hath a stand, To kill a Deere.
Somewhat I feare, betideth them amisse, They are so pale in lookes, so vext in minde: In happiehoure the Noble Scottish Peeres Haue I incountred you, what makes you mourne?
Spong and I had also several fine discourses upon the globes this afternoon, particularly why the fixed stars do not rise and set at the same houre all the yeare long, which he could not demonstrate, nor I neither, the reason of.
Thence my father and I walked to Gray's Inne Fields, and there spent an houre or two walking and talking of several businesses; first, as to his estate, he told me it produced about L80 per ann.
The Dutch are now known to be out, and we may expect them every houre upon our coast.
So after spending an hourewith my wife pleasantly in her closett, I to bed even by daylight.
Up, and to the office, where all the morning, expecting every houre more newes of the fleete and the issue of yesterday's fight, but nothing come.
I staid here an houre or more chatting with them in a little sorry garden of theirs by the Bowling Alley, and so left them and I by water home, and there was in great pain in mind lest Sir W.
But the king of England would not deferre one houre by (his good will) till he were reuenged, and therefore prepared a mightie armie to inuade Scotland, and ordeined for cheefteine thereof the lord Daubeneie.
SIR, The same houre that I received the honour of your commandments, by your letter left at my poore house, I put my selfe upon the way hither.
But the importunity of the houre excuses me, and delivers you from further trouble from Your very true friend and servant J.
And stay thou good Nurse behind the Abbey wall, Within this houre my man shall be with thee, And bring thee Cords made like a tackled staire, Which to the high top gallant of my ioy, Must be my conuoy in the secret night.
Tis very late, she'l not come downe to night: I promise you, but for your company, I would haue bin a bed an houre ago Par.
Ah what an vnkind houre Is guiltie of this lamentable chance?
Then all alone, At the prefixed houre of her waking, Came I to take her from her Kindreds vault, Meaning to keepe her closely at my Cell, Till I conueniently could send to Romeo.
Therefore vse none, let Romeo hence in hast, Else when he is found, that houre is his last.
And I were so apt to quarell as thou art, any man should buy the Fee-simple of my life, for an houre and a quarter Mer.
Prelates likewise may be raised at any houre of the day.
A king may be raised from the thirdhoure till noone, and from the ninth hour till evening.
A whole houre she held out; but then being ready to lye downe I left her off; but thus much in her praise, I would haue challenged the strongest man in Chelmsford, and amongst many I thinke few would haue done so much.
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