Your wives offence serves not (were it the worst 10 You can imagine) without greater proofes To sever your eternall bonds and hearts; Much lesse to touch her with a bloudy hand.
The complot 85 Is now laid sure betwixt us; therefore haste Both to your great friend (who hath some use waightie For your repaire to him) and to the Countesse, Whose satisfaction is no lesse important.
The other, that is the Romains made very small account of both daunsyngs, and lesse of the daunsers themselues.
But their suit came to little effect, and in the end it fell out in such wise, that their complaint was lesse regarded.
Or why were not these Romane palaces Made of some matter no lesse firme and strong?
But whether god or fortune made him bold Its hard to read: yet hardie will he had To overcome, that made him lesse adrad*.
How much lesse those, much higher in degree, And so much fairer, and much more then these, As these are fairer then the land and seas?
I perceiue, by your most curteous and frendly letters, your good will to be no lesse in deed than I alwayes esteemed.
Whose kingdomes throne no thoughts of earthly wight Can comprehend, much lesse my trembling verse With equall words can hope it to reherse.
I was beginning to fall wery idle, so that if I had stayed longer in Poictiers, I had alwayes engaged myselfe in more company, and so done the lesse good, whence I have a sort of satisfaction that I came away.
Whey was never on save this nobleman not so much as empanelled for this fault, much lesse put to death?
Fly swifter then the egle sent by art From Noremberg, to the Almaine emperour: A hand lesse cuning, but as true a hart Sends thee to a prince of greater worth and power.
By Fortunes Girdle you may happy be,[166] But they that are lesse happy are more free.
If partially Affin'd, or league in office, Thou dost deliuer more, or lesse then Truth, Thou art no Souldier Iago.
He that dares say of a lesse sin, is it not a little one?
When we injoy them it is with vanity and vexation; and, if we loose them, then they are lesse then vanity and more then vexation.
Moche lesse maketh that for them which they do bringe in / [[Gene.
Wherevpon the kyng more earnestlye gaue hede to her requeste, thinking the constante demaundes of the woman not to be in vain, bought the three bookes that remained for no lesse price, then was required for the whole.
I am assured, deare daughter, that you will no lesse maruell than be astonned to heare what I shal say vnto you, and so much the more, when you doe see, how farre my tale shall exceade the order of Reason.
Wherfore let fortune worke her wil: sithens the Duchesse did forsake her countrie, to come to see me in her prosperitie, I may no lesse do now, but visite her in her aduersitie.
Radegonde nolesse abashed, than surprised with feare, hearinge the resolution of the Princesse, could not at the first make any aunswere, but to make her recourse to teares, the most familiar weapons that women haue.
For if I wist thou couldest not loue, I would the lesse esteme thee.
The diameter of the thicknesse of these two rammers must be a thought lesse than the diameter of the rowler, to the end they may not hurt the coffin, being driuen in.
And as these euill spirits are in themselues different in power, vnderstanding, and subtiltie: so can their seruants do more or lesse through their meanes.
Thus euery light trifle (for what can be lesse then sweeping of a lttle dust awry?
And as he tooke hurt by such inconueniences chancing through euill councellors that were about him, so the lords and noblemen susteined no lesse hurt each one after his estate and calling.
Okland speaketh no lesse trulie & according to the report of our annales, than honorablie: [Sidenote: In Angl.
Much lesse to persecute him with the Civill Sword till it may appeare, even by just and full conviction, that he sinneth not out of conscience but against the very light of his own conscience.
To that which is lesse then gold or Beauty, voice, opinion, fame, honour, we sell our selves.
In that he gave no name to himselfe it may be by some perhaps argued, that he understood himselfe lesse then he did other creatures.
Of Ibrahim Khan, the Governor of Surat after Zufilkhar Khan, he writes: 'He was good but soe easy that he does no good; wee are not lesse afflicted with a block then before with a storck.
A true-deuoted Pilgrime is not weary To measure Kingdomes with his feeble steps, Much lesse shall she that hath Loues wings to flie, And when the flight is made to one so deere, Of such diuine perfection as Sir Protheus Luc.
Nay Sir, lessethen a pound shall serue me for carrying your Letter Pro.
Let one, or one thovsand be Here diuiders, single he Beares home no lesse, all they no more, Nor leaue they both lesse then before.
When the blest signes thou broke shalt see Hold but thy faith intire as He Who, howsoe're clad, cannot come Lesse then whole Christ in euery crumme.
Nor will the virgin ioyes we wed 15 Come lesse vnbroken to our bed, Because that from the bridall cheek of Blisse Thou steal'st vs down a distant kisse.
And this lou'd soul, iudg'd worth nolesse Then all that way, and wearyness.
Scarse has she blood enough to make 25 A guilty sword blush for her sake; Yet has she a heart dares hope to proue How much lesse strong is Death then Love.
Heau'n ne're the lesse still Heau'n would be, Should mankind dwell In the deep Hell: What haue his woes to doe with Thee?
Eyes, that bestow Full quivers on Love's bow; Yet paylesse arrowes than they owe.
No Graue vpon the earth shall clip in it A payre so famous: high euents as these Strike those that make them: and their Story is No lesse in pitty, then his Glory which Brought them to be lamented.
There is an animal somewhat lesse then a cow whose meat is exceeding good.
A dozen more or lesse old women meet together alike, of whome the greatest part want teeth, and seeth not a jott, and their cheeks hange downe like an old hunting-dogg, their eyes full of watter and bloodshott.
I admired their skill in doing of it, ffor in lesse then 2 hours they cutt the tree and pulled up the Rind, of which they made the boat.
Finally they seemed to me kinder and kinder, giving me of the best bitts where lesse wormes weare.
Now I must think to be no lesse traited by reason of the murder of the 3 men, but the feare of death takes away the feare of blowes.
That first feare being over a litle, they resolved to land & to make a fort with all speed, which was done in lesse then two houres.
Who ever tasted that graciousnesse of his, and could goe lesse in desier, and lessethan pressinge after full enjoyment?
It is much that the Moore should be more then reason: but if she be lesse then an honest woman, shee is indeed more then I tooke her for Loren.
Here there is a superiority without tyrannie, for no minister hath a papall or monarchicall jurisdiction over his own flock, far lesse over other pastors and over all the congregations of a large dioces.
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