A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
Perfyte Chastitee forsably feichtis aganis Lechery throu the remembraunce of God and his commandementis.
There arn'[t] but six deadly sins; lechery is none; As it may be verified by us brethels everyone.
And, among all other, I would ye understood That Lechery is called Lust.
The courtesy of England is oft to kiss, And of itself it is lechery where pleasure is.
By raveners is understand covetise; In unrightful to say pride of him than; In advoutry all lechery that men can rehearse.
Lechery loves to dwell in the fairest lodging, and covetousness in the oldest buildings, that are ready to fall: but my white head, sir, is no inn for such a gossip.
Your London aldermen take great lechery to see the poor wretches whipt at the court at Bridewell.
Now there is to some men a great lechery in lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people, and he thought it for his credit to serve such a master.
Therefore whoever of us shall offend is like David, for God does not permit his lechery or his pride to go unpunished, as the deeds related above indicate.
There Pyrrus deserted Christianity and returned to the filth of his old lechery and paganism.
It is claimed I sow the seed of jealousy, intrigue and lechery among them.
Has this depraved and hoary lechery aught else to hope?
Thirdly, The ardour of lechery is very much subdued and mated by frequent labour and continual toiling.
From which pretty description of tickling love-tricks that of Diogenes's hatching was not very discrepant, when he defined lechery the occupation of folks destitute of all other occupation.
Lizzie during the whole of the next week did nothing but rave of the excessive excitement that her whipping had put her into, and the extreme felicity she felt in having her salacious lechery satisfied.
To lyue in wantonnes and blyndnes lascyuyte In pryde in Lechery andin couetyse Suche sytteth theyr myndes and theyr felycyte Not ferynge hell whiche is rewarde of vyce.
Now, it is highly probable that their exaltations into the extra-terrestrial of Evil coincide with the rages of their frenzied senses, for lechery is the wet nurse of Demonism.
Lastly, the Fountain of Saint Elias, sulphurous and saponaceous, was renowned for its calming influence upon all who suffered from abuse of lechery or alcohol, or from ingrowing toe-nails.
There are worse faults to be laid to his account than lechery and extravagance.
A practise to bring the nobilitie into contempt and beggery, by nourishing such as may prouoke them to spend all vpon lechery and such base pleasures.
It omits the extremely characteristic excuse for lecheryof the Vita and omits all dates: e.
By this, said Epistemon, you may guess what kind of a pope it was who first enjoined it to be kept, since this filthy wooden-shoed Semiquaver owns that his spoon is never oftener nor deeper in the porringer of lechery than in Lent.
But, when he is dealing with lechery and corruption, the undercurrent of disgust seems to become audible.
He vents his lechery at the mouth, as some fishes are said to engender.
He never truly wants but in much having, for then his ease and lechery afflict him.
He depraves his appetite with haut-gousts, as old fornicators do their lechery into fulsomeness and stinks.
The lechery of this vanity has spawned more writers than the civil law.
He makes robbery his purchase, lechery his solace, mirth his exercise, and drunkenness his glory.
