Tis no lesse I tell you: for the bawdy hand of the Dyall is now vpon the pricke of Noone Nur.
I haue no Spurre To pricke the sides of my intent, but onely Vaulting Ambition, which ore-leapes it selfe, And falles on th' other.
Wherfore in heven to 125 ben losed with god hath non ende, but endlesse endureth; and thou canst nothing don aright, but thou desyre the rumour therof be heled and in every wightes ere; and that dureth but a pricke in respecte of the other.
No by my troth, not long: For we cannot lodge and board a dozen or fourteene Gentlewomen that liue honestly by the pricke of their Needles, but it will bee thought we keepe a Bawdy-house straight.
If you would walke off, I would pricke your guts a little in good tearmes, as I may, and that's the humor of it Pist.
And by this meane the Ladye Isabell thought to pricke her forward, who was in dede but to quicke of the spurre already, and thinking euery houre VII.
But I thinke this was no dreame, but a punction and pricke of his sinfull conscience: for the conscience is so much more charged and aggreeued, as the offense is greater & more heinous in degree.
And sayth, yt such witches as have sharp bones given them by the devill to pricke them, have no pappes or dugges whereon theire devill may sucke, but theire devill receiveth bloud from the place, pricked with the bone.
The same treatise is referred to by Richard Rolle de Hampole, in his Pricke of Conscience, l.
Let the mark haue a pricke in't, to meat at, if it may be Mar.
And thou but one, how dar'st thou prefer it, Knowing how sharp a Spurre doth pricke me on, The death of Burbon for my Bellamire?
I so you serue vs Till we serue you: But when you haue our Roses, You barely leaue our thornes to pricke our selues, And mocke vs with our barenesse Ber.
But howsoeuer thou pursuest this Act, Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue Against thy Mother ought; leaue her to heauen, And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge, To pricke and sting her.
Then Countrymen, What neede we any spurre, but our owne cause To pricke vs to redresse?
If you must carry grafts farre, pricke them into a Turnep newly gathered, or lay earth about the ends.
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