My brother Robert, old Sir Roberts sonne: Colbrand the Gyant, that same mighty man, Is it Sir Roberts sonne that you seeke so?
Do not seeke to stuffe My head with more ill newes: for it is full Bast.
Away, and glister like the god of warre When he intendeth to become the field: Shew boldnesse and aspiring confidence: What, shall they seeke the Lion in his denne, And fright him there?
I wish but what I have at will; I wander not to seeke for more, I like the plaine, I clime no hill; 45 In greatest stormes I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile in vaine To get what must be lost againe.
Now is nowe, and then was then: Seeke now all the world throughout, Thou kenst not clownes from gentlemen.
These men seeke the neerest way to woorke, I see wel.
And therefore if ye fancy it not, get ye packing in the name of God, and seeke an other Inne where ye liste.
Of Earthes wee need not take much care, for wee mustseeke for the best in the Ashes, as also fixed Salt.
I wish I had a cause to seeke him there, To oppose his hatred fully.
Thus hauing taken aduise togither, and wholie misliking their present state, they determined to take weapon in hand, and so by force to seeke for reformation.
Nay then he should be blind, and being blind How could he see his way to seeke out you?
I doe not seeke to quench your Loues hot fire, But qualifie the fires extreame rage, Lest it should burne aboue the bounds of reason Iul.
The Shepheard seekes the Sheepe, and not the Sheepe the Shepheard; but I seeke my Master, and my Master seekes not me: therefore I am no Sheepe Pro.
He wondred that your Lordship Would suffer him, to spend his youth at home, While other men, of slender reputation Put forth their Sonnes, to seeke preferment out.
Didst thou but know the inly touch of Loue, Thou wouldst as soone goe kindle fire with snow As seeke to quench the fire of Loue with words Luc.
Gone toseeke his dog, which to morrow, by his Masters command, hee must carry for a present to his Lady Iu.
Now let vs deuise therefore how he may bee handled for going about to seeke that, which he is not like to obtaine.
And hereof we neede not run to forrayne Hystories, ne yet to seeke records that be auncient, sith wee may see the daily effects of the lyke, practised in Noble houses, and Courtes of Kyngs and Prynces.
If your sorrow be so great ouer sir Bologna, and if you feare your childbed wil be descried, why seeke you not meanes to attempt some voyage, for couering of the fact, to beguile the eyes of them whych so diligently do watch you?
The heauens vnto my estate no doubt great friendship shoe, And do seeke wayes to ende, and finish all my woe.
And this is the whole effect of the scruple (sweete wyfe) that hyndreth me, to seeke for our better estate and fortune.
Speck stayeth not in Japon this yeare, for he sent to the Hollandes howse to seeke for pikes that were made ready to send for Jaccatra and weare carid abord a shipp.
For they have soe charmed themperour and his councell, that it is in vayne to seeke for remedy.
And have an espetiall care not to trust any man with the Companies goods without makinge ready payment, for I am informed these cuntrey people are not to be trusted, nether will any marchant of accompt seeke to bye upon creddit.
And out of these shipps 3 Englishmen escaped ashore and came to thenglish howse to seeke releefe, telling us they were used more like dogges then men amongst the Hollanders.
Horsley," sayd he, "I must with speede Go seeke a traytor on the sea, And now of a hundred bowemen brave To be the head I have chosen thee.
Then (as the seuentene conclusion doth teache) I seeke a common centre, on which I may make a circle, that shall enclose those iij prickes.
Yf the centre of the circle be not knowen, then seeke oute the centre according to the doctrine of the sixtenth conclusion.
If I wer you, Custance should eft seeke to me, ere I woulde bowe.
And I warrant hir soone right glad to seeke to you, Ye shall see hir anon come on hir knees creeping, And pray you to be good to hir salte teares weeping.
But I maruell I see hym not all thys same day, I wyll seeke him out: But loe he commeth thys way, I haue yond espied hym sadly comming, And in loue for twentie pounde, by hys glommyng.
When yeseeke your heartes ease, I will be vnkinde, At no tyme, in me shall ye muche gentlenesse finde.
I haue a venturous Fairy, That shall seeke the Squirrels hoard, And fetch thee new Nuts Clown.
Fare thee well Nymph, ere he do leaue this groue, Thou shalt flie him, and he shall seeke thy loue.
Oft my lost soule haue I bin glad to seeke On Thy soft cheeke.
King's not yet to seeke 65 Where to repose His royall head; See, see!
Her that dares be, What these lines wish to see: I seeke no further: it is she.
They therefore assembled themselues all together and came to seeke me in my chamber, and signified vnto me their intention, wherunto I promised to answere within one houre after.
M437) Fifteene dayes after this voyage to Thimogoa, I dispatched Captaine Vasseur and my Sergeant also to returne againe into this Countrey, and to seeke out the souldier which remained there in the former voyage.
How the Gouernour departed from Apalache to seeke Yupaha, and of that which happened vnto him.
From thence the Gouernour sent two Captaines each a sundry way toseeke the Indians.
Hereupon the fiue chiefe authors of the sedition armed with Corslets, their Pistolles in their handes already bent, prest into my chamber saying vnto mee, that they would goe to New Spaine to seeke their aduenture.
M630 Two Christians sent from Chiaha to seeke Chisca.
Hee lay there one night, and the day following, hee set forward to seeke a Prouince, called Pacaha: which hee was informed to bee neere vnto Chisca, where the Indians told him there was gold.
M595) We likewise reade not long after, that the Gouernour set forward to seeke a prouince called Pacaha, which hee was informed to bee neere vnto Chisca where the Indians told him, that there was gold.
The Gouernour sent out foure Captaines, euery one his way to seeke them.
A plague vpon Queene Mab, quoth hee, And all her Maydes where ere they be, I thinke the Deuill guided me, To seeke her so prouoked.
Sonet 2 To the Reader of his Poems Into these loues who but for passion lookes, At this first sight, here let him lay them by, And seeke elsewhere in turning other bookes, Which better may his labour satisfie.
And to conclude, if you and your friend shall thinke me a man sufficient and of credite, to seeke the Isle of S.
Antonio his brother, requesting that he would seeke some meanes to come to him.
Heere hauing mored our barke in good order, we went on shoare vpon a small Island to seeke for water and wood.
I will be glad to seeke by al meanes you can deuise for your deliuerance, either with force, or with any commodities within my ships, which I will not spare for your sakes, or any thing else I can doe for you.
Againe, their Ships were so leake, and the men so wearie, that to amend the one, and refresh the other, they must of necessitieseeke into harborough.
The Generall in the morning departed to Sea in the Gabriel to seeke the Fleete, leauing the Busse of Bridgewater, and the Michael behind in Beares sound.
His Lordship then in regarde of his sickness was advised to putt to Sea in his ship, the Delaware, to seeke remedie in some other parts for the health of his bodye.
Some adventuringe to seeke releife in the woods, dyed as they fought it, & weare eaten by others who found them dead.
Beasts are more kinde than men, sheepe seeke not blood, But countrey caytives kill their countreyes good.
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