M512) As my Lieutenant was ready to depart, I warned him aboue all things to take heede he fell not into the Indians hands: because I knew them to be very subtill and craftie to enterprize and execute any thing to our disaduantage.
Montanus, Discovery of sundry subtill Practises of the Inquisition.
Montanus, Discovery of sundry subtill Practises of the Inquisition, p.
Which when the carle beheld, and saw his guest Would safe depart, for all his subtill sleight, 4 He chose an halter from among the rest, And with it hung himselfe, vnbid vnblest.
If shee doth then the subtill Sense excell, How gross are they that drown her in the blood!
We seeke to know the mouing of each spheare, And the strange cause of th' ebs and flouds of Nile; But of that clock, within our breasts we beare, The subtill motions we forget the while.
Thou, that hast fashioned twice this Soule of ours, So that she is by double title Thine; Thou onely knowest her nature and her pow'rs, Her subtill forme Thou onely canst define.
These questions make a subtill argument, To such as thinke both sense and reason one; To whom nor agent, from the instrument, Nor power of working, from the work is known.
We seeke to know the mouing of each spheare, And the strange cause of th' ebs and flouds of Nile; But of that clocke within our breasts we beare, The subtill motions we forget the while.
Much like a subtill spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If ought doe touch the vtmost thred of it, Shee feeles it instantly on euery side.
Sidenote: A subtill and lewd practise of king Richard to beguile the earle of Richmond.
But they more subtill meaning had than he: 330 For the next morrowes meed they closely ment, [Closely, secretly.
That can thy subtillsecret strength resist, Sith the best farrier cannot set a shoe So sure, but thou (so shortly) canst undo?
Subtill as Sphinx, as sweet and musicall, As bright Apollo's Lute, strung with his haire.
O pardon, if that I descend so low, To shew the Line, and the Predicament Wherein you range vnder this subtill King.
Thus wittye and subtill doth that trembling feare / and gret desire of this world make them.
They are subtill and strong people, much addicted to drinking, for they will bee as drunke as Swine, with a kind of drinke made of Honie and Ryce.
There is extracted oil of golden colour, Or like it, out of our subtill red lead: When Raimond said, when he was old, Was much more pretious then gold.
And of the like, but more subtillwithout comparison, the Celestiall bodies are nourished and fed, that need but little nourishment, as approaching from spirituality.
So that it will penetrate all solid things what soever they be; because its nature shall be such, as of a Spirit: that which he borrowed out of Hermes, it shall penetrate every subtill thing.
These people are in nature very subtilland sharpe witted, ready to conceiue our meaning by signes, and to make answere well to be vnderstood againe.
Edilbald king of Mercia, who one while with stirring his owne subiects the Westsaxons to rebellion, an other while with open warre, and sometime by secret craft and subtill practises sought to disquiet him.
But others againe, which knew better the subtill wit of the protector, denie that he euer opened his enterprise to the duke, vntill he had brought to passe the things before rehearsed.
Which when the carle beheld, and saw his guest Would safe depart for all his subtill sleight, 480 He chose an halter from among the rest, And with it hung himselfe, unbid unblest.
But here perversly subtill you’l contend Nothing can move in mere vacuity, And space is nought, so not extended properly.
But there is a Memory more subtill and abstract in the soul it self, without the help of this spirit, which she also carries away with her having left the body.
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