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Yet this order may not be vsed alike in countries, bicause a man must consider the dealing with the hiues, according to the multitude of floures, & plentifulnesse of foode for the Bées.
A great profite ariseth by Bées, if they be set in a conuenient and fit place, and that both carefully & wisely guided, as Plinie writeth in his xj.
Of the great vtilitie and profite of the Bees vnto mans vse.
But this profite will be increased to the subiects of your highnesse by this free accesse of a few of our subiects to your dominions, as also the losse and burden wilbe eased, by the permission of generall accesse to all our people.
To seeke out a vent for our Bonettos, a cap made for Barbarie, for that the poore people may reape great profiteby the trade.
England, and after of some other things in Turkie, to the great profite of the Common weale of this Countrey.
The customers get great profite by these Herbes, for that they haue custome for them.
Whatsoeuer profite dooth remaine vnto these women when they haue payed their maister, they giue vnto the iudge their superiour, who doth keepe it faithfully and carefully, and giueth a good account thereof euerie yeare vnto the uisitors.
Likewise they do trauaile vnto other parts and places, wheras they vnderstand they may profite themselues.
A testimonie of the Northeasterne Discouerie made by the English, and of the profite that may arise by pursuing the same: taken out of the second volume of Nauigations and Voyages, fol.
Newly invented for the profite and contentment of ladies, gentilwomen, and others that are desireous of this art.
When the damisell harde this she turnid to the marchaunt and saide, Der frende, what profite is it to the that this kniᵹte that stondithe her redy to the dome be slayne?
For in the art of loue she exceeded all other women of hir detestable Arte and Scyence, as well in Knowledge of Loue as toprofite in the same.
By meanes of it (Sainct Augustine saith,) he learned many good lessons to profite himselfe and do good to other.
To be short, the contentes of these Nouels from degre of highest Emperour, from state of greattest Quene and Lady, to the homelye Cuntry peasant and rudest vilage girle, may conduce profite for instruction, and pleasure for delight.
God for his mercy lighten them with his grace, that this which they do smally vnto the profite of their soules, may bee the occasion that after they are baptised, they may deserue for the same many degrees of glory.
In that lond men worschipen the ox, for his symplenesse and for his mekenesse, and for the profite that comethe of him.
Diuines, or Students of Christian philosophie, applying themselues to the profite of the Christian people, and liuing by the labours of their owne hands, according to Pauls doctrine.
Great profite is like to be made by trucking, fishing, &c.
And further I can assure you vpon the perill of my life, that this voyage may be performed without further charge, nay with certaine profite to the aduenturers, if I may haue but your fauour in the action.
Wherefore in this behalfe he may rightly be called a true Pastor and minister of God's word, which for the profite of his flocke spared not to venture his owne life.
Where after wee had repayred them in all poynts as was needefull, and armed them very well, we tooke our course along by the coast of Spaine, which your Maiestie shall vnderstand by the profite that we receiued thereby.
That they haue not ther familiar conuersaciõ with the vnbeleuers for their own cause / as for their pleasure and recreacion / or for their gayn and profite / but only in respect of wynnynge them to the gospell of christe.
But these sacrificers / lyke men that can do mutch more then Paule / they do come with a straunge tong / which the congregacion vnderstondeth not / and yet neuertheles they bragge that they do muche profite the congregaciõ.
The same wordes I will now sumwhat bend / vse / and turn / vnto the profite of you that be weake / and thus saye vnto yowe.
What shall it profite a mã / yf he wynne al the worlde / and lose his owne sowle.
If Tullie then, the Prince of Orators, doth affirme the profite and pleasure to be in perusing of histories, then fitlye haue I intituled this volume the Palace of Pleasure.
By meanes whereof, all the Manours and morgaged landes, were taken awaye from Alexandro, hauing nothing wher vpon any profite did ryse.
Well Araspas, said Cyrus, by that opinion and brute, you shall do me greatest seruice, and profitevery muche my confederates.
To cause a ship to come hither with such commodities as would serue this countrey, would come to great gaines, God sending in safety the profite and gaines.
And being some thing strong, I procured to seeke meanes to liue, and to seeke a way how to profite my selfe in the Countrey, seeing it had pleased God to sende vs thither in safetie.
Longe experience of diuerse thinges profite much in dede, I confesse, but to a wyse man that is diligently instructed in preceptes of well doynge.
They set more money then by theprofite of the chyldren.
The teacher shall abuse these inclinacions to the profite of hys study.
Elegantly sayde Aristippus when a certen ryche man axed him what profite learnyng shuld brynge to a yong man: & it be no more but this quod he, y^t in the playing place one stone sytte not vpon an other.
If he shall profite nothing by prayers, and fayre meanes, neyther by gyftes mete for chyldren, nor prayses, he shal make a contencion with hys equales.
And ther is no cause why profite maye not folowe pleasure, and honestie ioyned to delectacion.
And after this we make our excuse that the age is weake, the wyt not yet apte to learne, the profite to be verye small, and manye other thinges, whan in dede the fault is to be ascribed to euill brynginge vp.
But whatprofite or worshyp is in these thinges, if he y^t shal be heire of thẽ can not vse thẽ?
It wolde yet muche profite to haue espyed the same assoone as can be, because we learne those thynges most easelie, to the which nature hath made vs.
All thys profite is lost except thou caste seede into the forowe, excepte thou noryshe wyth thy labour this tender plant as it groweth, and as it were make it tame by graffyng.
How much more profiteis it y^t age to sporte in letters, then in trifles?
The interpreter aunswered, that it was against humanitie to suffer them to perishe wyth hunger, yea and if they woulde heare the cause of theyr comming, they should shortly sée what profite would rebound vnto them.
The chiefe and principall cause of our cöming into this countrey, was to set forth the faith of Iesu Christ, & therwithal doth folow honour & profite which seldome times do dwell togither.
And euen as my trust is in God, euen so greater profiteshall come to our kings, and a nation of this oure enterprise, than hath héeretofore of any other.
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