Tilbery, and I had prouided a skilfull pylot to cary me ouer the lands end, whose name was M.
With what paine and diligence, I referre me to them which are skilfull in the Italian tongue, or may the better iudge, if it please them to trie the same, casting aside this exampler.
Maries: but sith I vnderstand not with what backewaters they be serued, I let them passe as not skilfull of their courses.
Of this toong I will not say much, bicause there are few which be not skilfull in the same.
Wherfore you shall vnderstand, that for his excellent knowledge in the art of nauigation (as nauigation then went) he was reputed the most skilfull prince that liued in his time.
Thus was I constrained to signe their Passe-port, and forthwith to grant them certaine mariners, with Trenchant an honest and skilfull Pilot.
It must be Peregrinationis historia, that is, true reportes of skilfull trauailers, as Ptolome writeth, that in such controuersies of Geographie must put vs out of doubt.
And for a speciall remedie to saue that vntimely casting of Lambes at such times, the skilfull shéepeheardes haue found out, that the only driuing of many Ewes togither, is a sure safegard to them to auoyde this occasion.
Such generally is the discreetest man, particularly in any art the most skilfull and discreetest, and in all other things for the more part those that be of much obseruation and greatest experience.
To tell you the decencies of a number of other behauiours, one might do it to please you with pretie reportes, but to the skilfull Courtiers it shalbe nothing necessary, for they know all by experience without learning.
Another Ambassadour vsed the like ouersight by ouerweening himselfe that he could naturally speake the French tongue, whereas in troth he was not skilfull in their termes.
The women make excellent lace, in which they are so skilfull that the Dutch women cannot surpass them.
Red with an Eye of Blew, makes a Purple; and by these simple Compositions again Compounded among themselves, the Skilfull Painter can produce what kind of Colour he pleases, and a great many more than we have yet Names for.
We make choise of the most skilfull workemen to draw or carue the portraiture of our faces, and shall euery artlesse Pensell delineate the disposition of our minds?
Yee that frequent the hilles, And highest Holtes of all; Assist me with your skilfull quilles, And listen when I call.
XVII Home is he brought, and laid in sumptuous bed: 145 Where many skilfull leaches him abide, To salve his hurts, that yet still freshly bled.
And beneath her skilfull fingers every note, with life imbued.
His skilfull fingers place a band As gently as a woman's hand; And not one patient needs to feel That he the truth will not reveal.
And though vnskilfull, why not Ned and I, For once allow'd the skilfull Pilots Charge?
He was excellent indeed Madam, the King very latelie spoke of him admiringly, and mourningly: hee was skilfull enough to haue liu'd stil, if knowledge could be set vp against mortallitie Ros.
Let me appeale, then, to knowledge if these naturall vines were planted, dressed and ordered byskilfull vinearoons, whether we might not make a perfect grape and fruitfull vintage in short time?
Tell me thouskilfull shepheards swayne, Who's yonder in the vally set?
As Britons, that so long Haue held this Antike Song, And let all our Carpers Forbeare their fame to wrong, Th' are right skilfull Harpers.
See how my Deere comes to thy Beauties stand, And there stands gazing on those darting eyes, Whilst from theyr rayes, by Cupids skilfull hand, Into his hart the piercing Arrow flyes.
Which is the chiefest cause, that amongest thẽ do florishe so many cunning and skilfull men, in the inuentions of straunge and wonderfull thinges, as in these our daies we see there do.
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