If you will bee vigilant and secrete in this article, you cannot misse to spie their priuie packing one with another, either on shore or aboord the shippe: worke herein wisely, and you shall deserue great thanks of the whole company.
You shall need alwayes to haue Argos eyes, to spie their secret packing and conueyance, aswell on land as aboord the shippe, of and for such furres and other commodities, as yeerely they doe vse to buy, packe and conuey hither.
M582) In the meane while the Gouernour sent a Spanyard disguised like a Sauage to spieout the state of the French.
One of them went up a tree tospie about, in case he could perceive any thing, to give notice to his comrades, & he was to come within sight of us to warne us.
When thou wilte see if in the daie there be comen anie spie into the Campe, cause everie man to goe to his lodgynge.
Not so: euen through the hollow eyes of death, I spie life peering: but I dare not say How neere the tidings of our comfort is Wil.
Tas beene proued, if I were a huge man I should feare to drinke at meales, least they should spie my wind-pipes dangerous noates, great men should drinke with harnesse on their throates Tim.
Hold Daughter, I doe spie a kind of hope, Which craues as desperate an execution, As that is desperate which we would preuent.
Heereat the true king stept forth, and commanded to lay handes on the lozell, and that he should be tortured to confesse the truth, for he was a spie and nothing else.
Tis not thy face, I cannot spie When Poets weepe some Virgins death, That Cupid wantons in her eye, Or perfumes vapour from her breath, And 'mongst the dead thou once must lie.
The Gouernour came to the Camp: And that night was a spieof the Indians taken by them of the watch.
I suspect him to be a spie sent to see what we doe.
But this was a fello, a spie sent per the fathers to pick quarrells against us.
Then with new eyes I shall survay thee,'and spie Death in thy cheekes, and darknesse in thine eye.
Yf the[y] think they spie a tempest but comming a farr of, strait they runn under hatches.
Those which come to sermons and goe away vnreformed are like those which looke in a glas, spie the spott in their face, but will not take the pains to wipe it off.
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