Enter Iacke Cade and the rest, and strikes hisstaffe on London stone.
I shall not want false Witnesse, to condemne me, Nor store of Treasons, to augment my guilt: The ancient Prouerbe will be well effected, A Staffe is quickly found to beat a Dogge Card.
This Staffe of Honor raught, there let it stand, Where it best fits to be, in Henries hand Suff.
This 1633 instrument was used also as "a crosse-staffe to take the height of the Sunne, or any Starre above the Horizon, and also their distances.
Goliah, the staffe of whose speare was like vnto the beame of a weauers loome, neuerthelesse he was slaine in the second battell in Gob by Elhanan, as the first was by Abisai Ioabs brother, and the second by Elhanan.
The figure marked G, representeth the staffehaving a basket wrought over it.
In saying of these words they beat mee againe, that they broke a great staffe upon mee.
He of this Gardin had the gouernall, 8 And Pleasures porter was deuizd to bee, Holding a staffe in hand for more formalitee.
Tho lifting vp his vertuous staffe on hye, He smote the sea, which calmed was with speed, 8 And all that dreadfull Armie fast gan flye Into great Tethys bosome, where they hidden lye.
Then followed the earle of Bedford bearing saint Edwards staffe for a relike.
Then followed the duke of Buckingham bearing the kings traine, with a white staffe in his hand, signifieng the office of the high steward of England.
These things thus ordred, the churches which through England had bin long vacant, were prouided of gouernors, which were placed without any inuestiture of staffe or ring.
For the which cause (quoth he) sith the kings pardon maie be likened in these daies to a buckler of glasse, or to a staffe of reed, in which is no trust, we dare not commit our selues vnto the defense of anie such pardons.
PRovide a good thick staffe about two yards long, three parts wherof ought to be made scoope-wise, or halfe hollow, like a basting ladle, the fourth part must serue for the handle.
He tould me that Mr. Nealson had geven hym a crosse staffe gratis, whether he would or no, he offering to have geven hym either money or stuffes for it, but he would not take any thing, but bad hym take it away with hym.
The Lords, and the Tenants Fayre on the staffe we scorden, Als we hoveon for to don, Fayre we him senden, Theder we hoveon for to sende.
Tho the staffe to me com Als he hoveon for to don, Faire and well iche him underfing Als iche hoveon for to don.
Philip Staffe went out of the ship of his own accord, for the love he bare to the said Hudson, who was thrust out of the ship.
The kinge's sonne gaue a gentle counterbuffe vpon the Placarde of the Senescall, and brake his staffe in many pieces, which was the X.
The Senescall brought for the eleuen launces, which were couragiously and houourably broken, by breaking of the last staffe which was the twelfth he was iudged most worthy.
Do I look like a cudgell or a houell-post, a staffe or a prop: doe you know me Father Gob.
By Iacobs staffe I sweare, I haue no minde of feasting forth to night: But I will goe: goe you before me sirra, Say I will come Clo.
Marrie God forbid, the boy was the veriestaffe of my age, my verie prop Lau.
And, father, here is another almes pennie for me, and if I speede in my journey, I will give thee a palmers staffe of yvorie, and a scallop shell of beaten gold.
You may thanke God the long staffe and the bilbowe 490 blade crost not your cockescombe.
By the masse, Gammer, but for my staffe Chat had gone nye to spyl you!
The strickler is a thing that goes along with the measure, which is a straight board with a staffe fixed in the side, to draw over corn in measuring, that it exceed not the height of the measure.
Yea, though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I wyll feare no euyll; for thou art with me, thy rodde and thy staffebe the thynges that do comfort me.
Though I shulde walke now in the valley of the shadowe of death, yet I feare no euell, for thou art with me; thy staffe and thy shepehoke comforte me.
They vse also macans, the which is a staffe of half a yeard long, made of flint, and verie smoth, wherewith they may cut a man a sunder in the midst; they vse also bucklers and targets made of rawe hides.
Therefore if ye make your staffe of eight, by two fowers not entertangled, it is not a huitaine or a staffe of eight, but two quadreins, so is it in ten verses, not being entertangled they be but two staues of fiue.
A staffe of sixe verses, is very pleasant to the eare, and also serueth for a greater complement then the inferiour staues, which maketh him more commonly to be vsed.
A staffe of foure verses containeth in it selfe matter sufficient to make a full periode or complement of sence, though it doe not alwayes so, and therefore may go by diuisions.
The first proportion then of a staffe is by quadrien or foure verses.
The staffe of fiue hath seuen proportions, whereof some of them be harsher and vnpleasaunter to the eare then other some be.
And first in a Quadreine there are but two proportions, for foure verses in this last sort coupled, are but two Disticks, and not a staffe quadreine or of foure.
A staffe of fiue verses, is not much vsed because he that can not comprehend his periode in foure verses, will rather driue it into six then leaue it in fiue, for that the euen number is more agreeable to the eare then the odde is.
A--G] thy staffe of office there, thy pen and Ink-horne.
The potter to hes cart he went, He was not to seke; A god to-hande staffe therowt he hent, 55 Befor Roben he lepe.
As I went by the hygh way, With a stout frere I met, And a quarter-staffe in his hande.
But Robin cast downe his baggs of bread, Soe did he his staffe with a face, And in a doublet of red velvett 40 This yeoman stood in his place.
For I can shote both farre and nere, And handle the sworde and buckler, And this quarter-staffe also.
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