Pitie it is but evermore wit should be vertuous, vertue gentle, gentrie studious, students gracious.
Our miserie may make them pitie vs the more, Nine such yong men great pains would take for life to hale an ore.
The praise of pitie vanisht is in vaine, And th'antique faith of iustice long agone Out of the land is fled away and gone.
Spying the tree destroid, the water dride, Himselfe smote with his beake, as in disdaine, And so foorthwith in great despight he dide; That yet my heart burnes in exceeding paine For ruth and pitie of so haples plight.
Come mistris Page, Ile be bold with you, Tis pitie to part loue that is so true.
Say that thy teere-discoloured cheeke should moue Relenting pitie and that long liu'd loue.
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.
Now appeared it that the gods had taken some pitie of the poore Britains, who by their diuine power did withhold the chiefe capteine of the Romans with his armie, as it were banished [Sidenote: Occasion not be neglected.
They are without memorie of the preaching of the gospel; if that God for his mercy doe not take pitie on them, and put into the heartes of some to goe thither, and to procure the remedie of so infinite number of soules.
Tis pitie so noble and peaceful a Soul should see, much more suffer the rudeness of those, who must make up their want of Justice, with inhumanity and impudence.
Make me as the good Samaritan, compassionate and helpfull to thy afflicted Church; which some men have wounded and robb'd; others pass by without regard, either to pitie or relieve.
It was great pitie to behold how the Spaniards lay swimming in the sea, and were not able to saue their liues.
O Serpent that came creeping from the shoare, And I for pitie harbord in my bosome, Wilt thou now slay me with thy venomed sting, And hisse at Dido for preseruing thee?
However, Will, I most heartilie pitie you, and will pray for you.
Thus as a principall infamie of that age, hee liued without loue, and died without pitie; sauing of those who thought it pitie that he liued so long.
But when I sawe she was ledde to the rape like a bondwoman, I considered, that better it wer her life to be loste, then suffered to liue in shame: wherefore my naturall pitie was conuerted to a kynde of crueltie.
And if pitie be the sole and onely keye of Paradise, displaye it now on the behalfe of her, who (forsaken of al humaine succour) attendeth but the fatall houre to be throwen into the fier as a poore innocent lambe in sacrifice.
Ah, sir knight (quoth the Earle) haue pitie vpon me, and kil me not I beseche thee, before I haue a litle bethought me of my conscience.
The great pitie and continencie of Alexander the great and his louinge entertaynment of Sisigambis the wife of the great monarch Darivs after he was vanquished.
Wherefore, who knoweth not what pitie mine owne deare Antiochus doth deserue?
L'Espagne faisant en nos jours plus de pitie que de peur a ceux qu'elle a tenus long-tems dans une crainte perpetuelle, et dans une respectueuse veneration.
O pitie on yon fair castle, That's built with stone and lime, 70 But far mair pitie on Lady Loudoun, And all her children nine.
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