Master Captaine, you know that I haue my |1230| choise of three or foure payre of Knights, and therefore haue small reason to flye out I know not how in a man of war.
And as soone as you haue sowne your Barley, you shall take a payre of woodden Harrowes, and harrow it as small as is possible: and this is called sowing aboue furrow.
Then went he to the markett place, As fast as he coulde hye; A payre of new gallowes there dyd he up set, Besyde the pyllorye.
A payre of gloves, a rede golde rynge, A pype of wyne, in fay; What man that bereth hym best i-wys The pryce shall bere away.
He that shoteth allther best, Furthest fayre and lowe, At a payreof fynly buttes, Under the grene wode shawe, 285.
Then went he to the markett place, 165 As fast as he coulde hye; There a payre of new gallowes he set up Besyde the pyllorye.
Here comes a payre of verie strange beasts, which in all tongues, are call'd Fooles Clo.
I lost my Children, If these be they, I know not how to wish A payre of worthier Sonnes Bel.
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.
Hume, if you take not heed, you shall goe neere To call them both a payre of craftie Knaues.
I know them all, though they suppose me mad, And will ore-reach them in their owne deuises, A payre of cursed hell-hounds and their Dam Dem.
This day Sam'l refuses me the French mantle as beyond his Purse, but offers a payre of gloves--I refusing this.
Barret, commanding his head to bee put in the stocks, and a great payre of yron bolts on his legs, and the rest of vs, to be set in the stocks by the legs.
If thou were a man, as thou art none, Here on my sword thoust dye; But a payre of new gallowes shall be built, And there shalt thou hang on hye.
The next payre of gallowes thou comest unto, Turne in upon thy right hand.
M210) In stead of apparell, they weare skinnes vpon them like mantles; and they haue a smal payre of breeches, wherewith they couer their priuities, as well men as women.
Sixe payreof letherne shoes of diuers colours, garnished with golde, siluer, and pearle.
Hovv Cortez put a payreof giues on Mutezuma his legges.
A payre of beades of golde, the stones hollowe, wyth a Frogge of golde hanging at the same.
Thomas Tallis, the father of English church music, was organist of the Abbey Church, and presided at the "greate large payre of organes" in the Choir.
The Chapel was furnished besides with "a lytell payreof organes," valued at xxs.
For had a man slayn al his kynne, Go shryve him at a frere; And for lasse then a payre of shone He wyl assoil him clene and sone!
Sumtyme with a portas, sumtyme with a payreof bedes.
One payre of beads of silver with riche gaudeys'; Monast.
In the afternoon my wife and I and Mrs. Martha Batten, my Valentine, to the Exchange, and there upon a payre of embroydered and six payre of plain white gloves I laid out 40s.
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