I have seene a Catamountaine[259] once; but all was nothing to the wench that turnd round and thred needles.
The thred thinge that theise men must take heede of / and Rule which they must obserue is.
By a Spindle ful of thredbroken of from the Distaf, they mean the shortnes of mans life.
Non occides, is the Commandment of God, yet scarce observed by any man; for I perceive every man is his own Atropos, and lends a hand to cut the thred of his own days.
And indeed wiser discretions that have the thred of reason to conduct them, offend without pardon; whereas, under-heads may stumble without dishonour.
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.
Poore Desdemon: I am glad thy Father's dead, Thy Match was mortall to him: and pure greefe Shore his old thred in twaine.
If thou didst but consent To this most cruell Act: do but dispaire, And if thou want'st a Cord, the smallest thred That euer Spider twisted from her wombe Will serue to strangle thee: A rush will be a beame To hang thee on.
Therefore goe speake, the Duke will heare thy voyce; and let not Bardolphs vitall thred bee cut with edge of Penny-Cord, and vile reproach.
Had not Church-men pray'd, His thred of Life had not so soone decay'd.
He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, finer then the staple of his argument.
And by side this the seid Prisot wolde suffre no man that was lerned to speke for the pleyntyfs, but took it as a venom, and took them by the nose at every thred woord whiche myght weel by knowe for open parcialte.
And he seyd for to entre in the maner of Oxened, the which his fader was possessid of and his auncestres from kyng Edward the thred on to Colbys tyme, and that he had fownd a tayll ther of in the kynges bokes.
I have fool'd my self a fair thred of all my fortunes, This strikes me most; not that I fear to perish, But that this unmannerly boldness has brought me to it.
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