She has drencht me now; now I admire her goodness; So young, so nobly strong, I never tasted: Can nothing in the power of Kings perswade ye?
Many of them had Thoughts of absconding in the Mountains, the Rest were frighted, and those who intended to revolt, found an Opportunity to perswade the others to joyn with them, and encourag'd the unsettled with fair Promises.
Among these Things he intermixes many more, all of them tending to perswadethe Expedition of Ternate, to blot out the last Disgrace, without any Expence to the King, through Cachil Tulo's Contrivance.
Stay, stay, I say: And if you loue me, as you say you doe, Let me perswade you to forbeare a while King.
Goe, take her, And fluently perswade her to a peace: Et opus exegi, quod nec Iouis ira, nec ignis.
But can it be, that we haue lost so many as the common sort perswadethemselues wee haue?
Finally, when the said Advocates could by no meansperswade them to come to Edinburgh, they returned again to Edinburgh, and declared to the Queen's Majestie according as they had found.
With this then pretended purpose, they didperswade with their captaine to permit them so much libertie as for to go and speake with the viceroy, who for that hee bare them loue and good will did consent therevnto.
Here I hold my selfe bound to set up a Beacon, to give warning of a new-sprung Sect of Phrantasticks, which would perswade themselves and others, that they have discovered the Nor-west passage to Heaven.
I hope the present dolefull estate of the Realme, willperswade more strongly to some considerate course herein, than I now can.
But the President, "whom no perswasions could perswade to starve," was full of resource.
Speaking of examples in poetry, he says, "Right so no kinde of argument in all the Oratorie craft doth better perswade and more universally satisfie then example.
Thus ambicion and desire of honoure easily doth perswade any deuyse: wherfore carying with them all their substance they repaired to Rome.
Perswade me rather to be slaue and sumpter To this detested groome Gon.
If thou perswade mee thus to speake, I dye And shee the murdresse, for me will deny; And if for silence I bee prest, Her good Yet I cherish 20 Though I perish, For that shee Shall bee free From that foule guilt of spilling bloud.
Thou dost protest thy love, and wouldst it shew By matching her as she would match her foe: And wouldst perswade her to a worse offence, Then that whereof thou didst accuse her wench.
Fy busy Lord, will it not thee suffice To use the Rhetorique of her tongue and eyes 10 When I am waking, but that absent so They invade mee To perswade mee, When that sleepe Oft should keepe 15 And lock out every sence of woe.
Lineis, nempe quadruplus Recta DV: And would thence perswade you, that Mr. Rook had assigned a Solide, equal to a Line.
SIR, I would I were so good an Alchimist to perswade you that all the vertue of the best affections, that one could expresse in a sheet, were in this ragge of paper.
And that even moderate mirth of heart, and face, and [is] all I wish to my self; and perswade you to keep.
Gherard, could not (I think) perswade a Middlesex Jury of so much dishonesty in Your true servant J.
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