M417) Wherefore in their extreme dispaire certaine among them made this motion that it was better that one man should dye, then that so many men should perish: they agreed therefore that one should die tosustaine the others.
There remained now but the principal, which was to recouer victuals to sustaine vs while our worke endured: which I vndertooke to doe with the rest of my company and the Mariners of the ship.
My sister truely said, there hung a taile Of circumstance so blacke on that supposure, That tosustaine it thus abhorr'd our mettall.
Of my soule, Tis onely in my love to honour you With what would grace the King: but since I see You still sustaine a jealous eye on mee, 5 Ile goe before.
The people hearing the lamentable talke of his father, and seinge in him an vnmoueable minde, able to sustaine al aduersity, acquited him rather through the admiration of his vertue and valiance, then by iustice and equity of his cause.
And I must confesse vnto thee, that I sustaine a very cruel assault both againste death and life, and I cannot either with the one or with the other, haue peace or truce in my selfe.
The mother of the woman hearing him say so, began to pray pardon, and said, that her doughter might not both sustaine paine in the birth, and also trouble to nourish it herselfe.
Curiatius not able to sustaine his blowe, fell downe, and lying vpon his backe, he thrust him into the throte with his sworde, whiche done he dispoyled him of his armure.
Shee finding her selfe feeble and weake, not able to sustaine such, resolved for death.
The fort being finished, every one maketh himselfe in a readiness to sustaine the assult if any had tempted.
In the morning I deuided the company three and three to goe euery way to see what foode they could find to sustaine thenselues, and appointed them to meete there all againe at noone with such foode as they could get.
The spirite of a man (sustained by y^e spirite of God) will sustaine his infirmitie, I dout not so will yours.
What could nowsustaine them but the spirite of God & his grace?
Good Beauties, let mee sustaine no scorne; I am very comptible, euen to the least sinister vsage Ol.
You are a great deale abus'd in too bold a perswasion, and I doubt not you sustaine what y'are worthy of, by your Attempt Iach.
Helpe me away deere Charmian, I shall fall, It cannot be thus long, the sides of Nature Will not sustaine it Ant.
Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that, You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustaine my house: you take my life When you doe take the meanes whereby I liue Por.
Behold, I haue a weapon: A better neuer did it selfe sustaine Vpon a Soldiers Thigh.
If you omit The offer of this time, I cannot promise, But that you shall sustaine moe new disgraces, With these you beare alreadie Sur.
The World should sinke, and all the pompe she hugs Close in her hart, in her ambitious gripe, Ere I sustaine it, if this slendrest joynt Mou'd with the worth that worldlings love so well Had power to save it from the throate of hell.
And because one place was not able to sustaine vs, we tooke our leaues one of another, diuiding our selues into seuerall companies.
What could now sustaine them but y^e spirite of God & his grace?
And besides this, their ilands were poore of victuals, and could not sustaineso great an armie many dayes.
After his decease king Henrie the second came no sooner to the crowne, but he called to mind the inconuenience which his predecessour had suffered, and he himselfe might in time sustaine by those fortifications.
Gospell, and the vnlearned labored with their hands, thereby to mainteine themselues, and to sustaine their preachers.
And yet such horror I sustaine As the sad vessell, when Rough tempests have incenst the Maine, Her Harbor now in ken.
The Maister-gunner, which beheld his eyes Dart fier gainst death triumphant in his face, Came to sustaine him, and with courage cryes, How fares my Knight?
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