Feare of Phillis death prov'd vayne, and feare of Amyntas Death will proove vayne too: life eache thing lyvely procureth.
How can'st thou proove that to bee a fishe that was not bredd in the water, that coold never swimme, that hathe neather roe nor milt, scale nor finne, lyfe nor motion?
You call us theeves that may proove honester Than many goe for trewe[84] men on the shore.
Oft painted vessayles bringe in poysond cates, And the blackest serpents weare the goldenst scales; And woman, made mans helper at the fyrst, Dothe oft proove his destroyer.
Have I rid all this Circuite to levie the powers of your Iudgment, that I might notproove their strength too sodainly with so violent a charge; And do they fight it out in white bloud, and show me their hearts in the soft Christall of teares?
Be garr, enforme your grace vot he dare I will proove by good argument and raison dat he is de falce beggerlie Jeweller, dat I no point marrie Cornelia.
My Lort be garr he lyes falslie in his troate; Me proove by the duell dat he be the fallce knave.
I pray God, Nicholas proove not a fly:[1880] it would do me good to deale with a good man now, that we might have halfe a dozen good smart stroakes.
No: but when egge-pies growes on apple-trees, then will thy gray mare proove a bag-piper.
To proove my sayings true, Ile shew you straight The booke he keepes at Henly for himselfe.
But graunt that geomancie hath most force; Bungay, to please these mightie potentates, Proove by some instance what thy art can doe.
Yet I may hap to proove a Daniell; 85 And, if I doe, sure it would make me laugh, To be among wilde beastes and yet be safe.
If any thing be in the pen to blame, Then here stand I to blush the writers shame: If this be bad, he promises a better; Trust him, and he will proove a right true debter.
And, if the Kernell proove to be of worth, No matter from what shell we drew it forth.
And if any one here her birth doe disdaine, Her father is ready, with might and with maine, To proove shee is come of noble degree: Therfore never flout att prettye Bessee.
But wee say, such were never right bred; such as proove falling starres, never were ought but meteors; the other never lose light or motion: spirituall motions may be violent and perpetuall.
Ere you come hither, proove I was somebody, The king delighted in me, now I am a noddy.
A youth will play the wanton, and an olde man proove a mome.
Twexte shappe & us there ys botte lyttelle space; The tyme ys nowe to prooveyourselves bee menne; Drawe forthe the bornyshed bylle wythe fetyve grace, Rouze, lyche a wolfynne rouzing from hys denne.
I could not chuse but apply my self in some sort to the season, and either proove a weede in my encrease without profit, or a wholesome pothearbe in profit without pleasure.
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