And that for our inhabiting it was much more needefull for vs to plant in places plentifull of victuall, then in goodly Hauens, faire, deepe and pleasaunt to the view.
Also consult Nicholas, Pleasaunt Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, 1578, pp.
Verie pleasaunt for all Gentlemen to read, and most necessarie to remember.
A discourse as pleasaunt for gentlemen that fauour learning, as profitable for all that wyll follow vertue.
Riche his Farewell to Militarie profession: Conteining veriepleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme.
And againe the practise is so pleasaunt in vsinge, and so profitable in appliynge, that who so euer dothe delite in anie of bothe, ought not of right to mislike this arte.
Some woman or other did alwayes attende vpon the table to cheere the company with pleasaunt talke and prety conceites.
March betokeneth the six yeres followynge, Arayeng the erthe with pleasaunt verdure; That season youth thought for nothynge, And wothout thought dooth his sporte and pleasure.
For Bishops in proces of time neglected the word of God, they would accept the Diuell and receiue him as an Angell of light, when he came not in a blacke and horrible, but a pleasaunt and acceptable forme.
Spirits haue sometimes appeared in a pleasaunt fourme, and sometimes in a horrible shape.
Nowe youre grace prepareth for the holsome and pleasauntfoode of the mynde.
We should haue made no mention in thys place of ryches and prefermente, for they bryng wyth them no pleasaunt lyfe, but rather a sadde and a pêsiue.
For oft-tymes, when no wynde on lande doth remayne, Yet on the see pleasaunt cooles you shall obtayne.
A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons Nedle: Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge Made by Mr. S.
Thereto the herber was so fresh and cold, The wholesome savours eke so comforting That, as I demede, sith the beginning Of thilke world was never seene or than So pleasaunt a ground of none earthly man.
I hauing beene somewhat prolix and tedious in my former purpose, it may be that it hath bred some offence, to such as dayly indeuour to occupie theyr sences in the pleasaunt discourses of loue.
Some rested their heads in the chaste laps of their faire loues, recounting the pleasaunt deuises of Iupiter, and they instrophyating their curled locks with sweete smelling flowers.
The Musicke beganne vppon a sodayne with a rare inuention to sound a charge with a pleasaunt concord, participating togeather a sweete and thundering melodie, hauing in it a deuine furie.
And by this appoynted order, there was continually heard melodious soundes, andpleasaunt harmonies, sweete concords with delightfull Musicke presented, odoriferous perfume smelt, and stately viandes plentifully fedde of.
But was rayther perswaded to goe on further: first because the countrie was so fertile, pleasaunt and beautifull.
And with these and such like pleasaunt and gratious questions, these fayre young Virgins, sporting and solacing themselues, we washt and bathed together.
Yea and oftentimes they mette Within a fayre arboure, Where they in love and sweet daliaunce Past manye a pleasaunt houre.
Where dame nature hath formed you by your comely grace, and your fayre face, to beholde eche man, and to vtter pleasaunttalke intermixed with honestie and vertue.
Maister Alberto of Bologna, by a pleasaunt aunsweare made a gentlewoman to blushe, which had thoughte to haue put him out of countenaunce, in telling him that he was in loue with her.
The yong man by compulsion of his mother, toke occasion to inuent a pleasaunt and mery lie, in this wise.
A pleasaunt discours of a great Lord to enioy a Gentlewoman of Pampelunæ.
He was a goodly personage, faire and pleasaunt to beholde, yonge and of good behauiour, vpon whom the woman many times did cast her eyes, and liked him well.
Alberto rose vp, thanking the gentlewoman, and with much sport and pleasaunt talke taking his leaue of the company departed.
A Right Pleasaunt Historie of the Mylner of Abingdon.
And the pleasaunt Memory of your valyaunt facts beguyle my pensife thoughts, hopyng our nexte meetyng shall bee more ioyfull than thys our dysiunctyon and departure heauy.
This pleasaunt beginning so allured the Lord of Nocera, as vnder the pretence of huntinge, there was no weeke that passed, but hee came to visite the Warrener of hys Lieutenaunt.
Thanke vs for our pollicy andpleasaunt disport that wee made you.
Hee doth consent I wot, to my ill hap and woe, And hath accorded with the dame that is my pleasaunt foe, To make my boyling brest abound in bitter blisse, And so bereue me of my rest, when heart his hope shall misse.
And on the other part thinking, that the more pleasaunt and amorous she shewed hirselfe to be, the more hir beauty should be esteemed, chiefly of him whom specially shee was disposed to loue.
And thou mypleasaunt Lute, cease not my songs to sound, And shew the torments of my minde, that I through loue haue found, And alwayes tell my Mistresse still, Hir worthy vertues rules my will.
Now by the faith of my bodye you are a pleasaunt trifler.
Verie well, consider now, consider I saye whither ought thou mayest doe to them more pleasaunt and better lyked, then to let them see thee leade this maner of lyfe, so shamefull and wretched.
Pleasaunt and lusty, to every mannes syght In beaute and strength, to women pleasyng.
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