And certeine it is that some of them slue their wiues and children, as mooued thereto with a certeine fond regard of pitie to rid them out of further miserie and danger of thraldome.
After which obteined, they were so cruellie [Sidenote: The miserie of the English vnder the French.
Ile of Stepen, in great miserie for lacke of vittels, bicause they could not go abroad to get anie.
It may be theft is so seuerely punished of them, for that the nation is oppressed with scarcitie of all things necessary, and so poore, that euen for miserie they strangle their owne children, preferring death before want.
Will you sitte downe with me, and wee two, will raile against our Mistris the world, and all our miserie Orl.
But seuen yeares since, in Siracusa boy Thou know'st we parted, but perhaps my sonne, Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in miserie Ant.
Therefore, the wiseman doeth admonishe vs, to go vnto the Ant and learne prouidence: and also by the Greshopper, lette vs learne to auoide idelnes, leste the like miserie and calamitie fall vpon vs.
Ah, Adelasia, what happie miserie dost thou finde in this free prison, where pleasure hath no place till the enemies haue disquieted the life, with a Million of painefull aud daungerous trauailes?
And they three dwelling still at Florence, began agayne to forget to what miserie their inordinate expences hadde brought them before.
By this we may consider the great miserie of mans estate, in that so mightie a prince could not haue so much ground after his death as to couer his dead corps, without dooing iniurie to another.
For what encrease shall happen to the glorie of God by the vnrecouerable miserie of me and my houshold?
But this is not the end of all their miserie / as ye may well perceyue / if ye do consider what is appointed to be their perpetuall porcion / which shalbe payed them full truly in the laste daye.
The wise and graue personages of the realme of France, sore lamenting & bewailing the miserie of their countrie, saw they had puissance inough to defend their enimies, if they were of perfect concord amongst themselues.
But may I thinke that Munster and Krantzius were so mad as to imagine that the Islanders liue vpon grasse and hay: To this passe ofmiserie was Nabuchodonozor brought vndergoing the yoke of Gods vengeance Daniel 4.
Ah my dread Lord, if any little sparke Of melting pittie doth remaine alive, And not extinguisht by my impious deedes, Oh kindle it unto a happie flame, To light Allenso from this miserie Which through dim death he's like to fall into.
What should I here recite the miserie I had, When none of you will scarce credit that ere it was so bad?
Our miserie may make them pitie vs the more, Nine such yong men great pains would take for life to hale an ore.
I cease here to enlarge my miserie in that land, A toy in head doth now me charge, as here to hold my hand.
Our ship then newes doth beare when she to England wends That we nine surely drowned were, and thus doth tell our friends: While we thus being lost, aliue inmiserie Do row in hope yet on this coast, our ships to finde truly.
We see all hope is past our ships to finde againe, And here our liues do shorten fast in miserie and paine: For why the raging heat of Sunne, being so extreme, Consumes our flesh away in sweat, as dayly it is seene.
Yet, when they saw that the hogges wanted it not, and that they had yeelded themselues to serue them, and considering their miserie and wretchednes, hauing pity of them, they gaue them part of the Maiz which they had.
Yea this miserie was so great, that one was found that gathered vp among the filth of my house, all the fish bones that he could finde, which he dried and beate into powder to make bread thereof.
Thair is na-thing may be so odius To man, as leif[616] in miserie and wo, Defraudand God of nature genius.
I would such discontented men were hear againe, for it is a miserie when y^e whole state of a plantation shall be thus exposed to y^e passionate humors of some discontented men.
Though in y^e mean time they (poore soules) indured miserie enough; and thus in the end necessitie forste a way for them.
I doe commend in Seneca this passion; And yet me thinkes our Countries miserie Doth at our hands crave somewhat more then teares.
Ascanio, time hath bene, I must confesse, When in thy presence was my happinesse, But now the manner of my miserie Hath chaung'd that course that so it cannot be.
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