Should by the Cormorant belly be restrain'd, Who is the sinke a th' body Men.
Would I might sinke presently into ye earth, so I might blow vp this Rome, this whore of Babylon into the aire with my breath.
I saw at the house where I was hosted, a maide bring her master warme broth for to comfort him, and she sinke downe dead her self ere he had halfe eate it vp.
The ignorant arise and snatch the kingdome of heauen to themselues with greedines, when we with all our learning sinke downe into hell.
Goe place some men upon the bridge, With bowes and cartes to shoot at them they see, And sinke them in the river as they swim.
After a long fight the English ship gained the advantage, willing them to yeeld, or els we should sinke them: wherupon the one would have yeelded, which was shot betweene winde and water; but the other called him traiter.
Unto whom we made answere, that if he would not yeeld presently also, we would sinke him first.
No no, she cares not how we sinke or swimme, So she may haue Æneas in her armes.
A wofull tale bids Dido to vnfould, Whose memorie like pale deaths stony mace, Beates forth my senses from this troubled soule, And makes Æneas sinke at Didos feete.
Ones for alway let this sinke in your mynde-- That ye desire shal never rejoysed be!
They are broad, made like racketts, that they may goe in the snow and not sinke when they runne after the eland or other beast.
We cutt the ice with hattchetts & we found places where [it] was rotten, so we hazarded ourselves often to sinke downe to our necks.
It nedeth noght to mi sothsawe That I witnesse scholde drawe, Into this dai for nevere yit Ne mihte it sinke into mi wit, That I my conseil scholde seie To eny wiht, or me bewreie 2940 To sechen help in such manere, Bot only of mi ladi diere.
O setting Sunne: As in thy red Rayes thou doest sinke to night; So in his red blood Cassius day is set.
But when they should endure the bloody Spurre, They fall their Crests, and like deceitfull Iades Sinke in the Triall.
Sinke Sion, downe and never rise, Her falling thou did'st urge and thrust, And haste to dash her into dust: 30 Dost laugh?
And to sinke in it should you burthen loue, Too great oppression for a tender thing Rom.
I am too sore enpearced with his shaft, To soare with his light feathers, and to bound: I cannot bound a pitch aboue dull woe, Vnder loues heauy burthen doe I sinke Hora.
The trusty bark, ore laden with thy sinnes, Baudryes, grosse lyes, thy theft and perjuryes Beesydes the burdene of thy ill gott gooddes, Not able to indure so greate a weight Was forct to sinke beneathe them.
Heere they stand: Tutch but a garment, nay a heyre of theres With thy least finger, thy bald head I'l sinke Belowe thy gowtye foote.
Whome the high powers miraculously preserve, Whome even the merciles waves have borne ashore, Shall we soe sinke a land?
Burne house, sinke Athens, henceforth hated be Of Timon Man, and all Humanity.
Neu'r speake, or thinke, That Timons fortunes 'mong his Friends can sinke Stew.
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