Lest it see more, preuent it; Out vilde gelly: Where is thy luster now?
How topreuent the Fiend, and to kill Vermine Lear.
O're which his Melancholly sits on brood, And I do doubt the hatch, and the disclose Will be some danger, which to preuent I haue in quicke determination Thus set it downe.
I haue obserued too much, nor shall my silence Preuent the remedy--yonder they are, I dare not bee seene with you.
My thankes For this great fauour shall preuent your trouble.
And I will seeke for rescue out of hand, Run Nano runne, preuent thy Princes death.
King Edward hauing intelligence héereof, purposed to preuent him, and therevpon entering with an armie into his countrie, cruellie wasted and spoiled the same.
Therefore, Lord Oxford, to preuentthe worst, Forthwith wee'le send him hence to Brittanie, Till stormes be past of Ciuill Enmitie Oxf.
Wherefore (as it were to preuent the matter) they began to wast the English confines.
Sidenote: If the companie do not enter into the trade of Lappia, others will preuent them.
To preuent which discommodity, one of the best remedies is the sufficient and fit distance of trees.
These drinks are very wholesome, they coole, purge, and preuent hot Agues.
But I beseech the gods to preuent the choyce to be a Romane prysoner.
Tell mee I beseech thee, perchaunce thou mayst preuent the same by other remedy than that whereabout thou goest.
Therefore to preuent the chances of fortune, he determined whilest he was aliue to crowne his eldest sonne Henrie, being now of the age of 17.
Preuent it, resist it, and let it not be so, Least Child, Childs Children cry against you, Woe North.
O Caesar no dishonour canst thou get, In seeking to preuent vnlucky chance: Foole-hardy men do runne vpon their death, Bec thou in this perswaded by thy wife: No vallour bids thee cast away thy life.
Her Maiestie being informed of a mightie preparation by Sea begunne in Spaine for the inuasion of England, by good aduise of her graue and prudent Counsell thought it expedient to preuent the same.
Haue I laid my braine in the Sun, and dri'de it, that it wants matter to preuent so grosse ore-reaching as this?
Not like a woman, for I would preuent The loose encounters of lasciuious men: Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weedes As may beseeme some well reputed Page Luc.
A man can no more separate Age and Couetousnesse, then he can part yong limbes and letchery: but the Gowt galles the one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the Degrees preuent my curses.
Better it were they all came by his Father: Or by his Father there were none at all: For emulation, who shall now be neerest, Will touch vs all too neere, if God preuent not.
But so soone as they landed each of them brake his Oare, thinking by that meanes to preuent vs, in carrying away their boates for want of Oares.
Both our breed, and trade VVill ſuddenly decay, if we preuent not.
A short time after "shee made good the Deuil's worde, and to preuent the Iustice of the Law, and to saue the hangman a labour, cut her owne throate.
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