The King Sir, hath laid that in a dozen passes betweene you and him, hee shall not exceed you three hits; He hath one tweluefor mine, and that would come to imediate tryall, if your Lordship would vouchsafe the Answere Ham.
Vnder the Aequator the day is alwayes twelue houres longe, but as you goe from it towards the Pole, the Day lengthens still till it comes to a day halfe a yeare long.
This fire burnt fiercely all night, and part of the next day (for my man was there about twelue a cloke, and he said he did see the fardest house on fire) till all was burnt and pulled downe to the ground.
All this happened beforetwelue of the clocke in the forenoone, the weather being indifferent calme; and the sixt of February, the next yeere following, the Thames againe shifted tydes very strangely.
There are three sortes, of which two are ripe in an eleuen and twelue weekes at the most: sometimes in ten, after the time they are set, and are then of height in stalke about sixe or seuen foote.
Also it hath twelue principall gates: and about the distance of eight miles, in the high way vnto euery one of the saide gates standeth a city as big by estimation as Venice, and Padua.
The towne is from Cauo de le gatte twelue miles distant.
The citie of Caido hath twelue gates, being each of them two miles distant from another.
The same night about tenne of the clocke the winde calmed, and because none of the shippe knewe where we were, we let fall an anker about 6 mile from the place we were at before, and there wee had muddie ground at twelue fathome.
Thus we kept on our course with a prosperous winde, and made our way after twelue mile euery houre.
From Holland, Zeland, and from Flanders wonne By weekely pay, threescore twelue Bottoms came.
This bridge conteining roome for threescore armed men to passe afront, was made ouer the riuer of Sient, by the which men saile into the Isle, which by the course of the sea ebbeth and floweth euerie twelue houres.
This yeare, and likewise the yeare last past, was such plentie of graine; that wheat was sold in some places of this land for twentie pence a quarter, and in some places for sixteene pence, and pease for twelue pence a quarter.
There are found in euery wood in great numbers, such timber trees as twelue men holding handes together are not able to fathome.
But vnder the Equinoctiall the presence and abode of the Sunne aboue the Horizon is equall to his absence, and abode vnder the Horizon, eche being twelue houres.
Then had wee but tenne or twelue miles into France, which we went that night, and then cared not for the Spanyard.
This fourteenth day from nine a clocke at night till three a clocke in the morning, wee ankered by an Island of yce, twelue leagues off the shore, being mored to the yce.
A sonet or brief rehersall of the properties of the twelue monethes afore rehersed.
For plantes and for stockes, lay afore hand to cast: but set or remoue them, while twelue tide doe last.
But to be out of all doutfull imaginations, king Edward also sent him ouer the sea to the castell of Hammes, where, by the space of twelue yeeres hee was in strong prison shut vp and warilie looked to.
In the other end of the same pane a hall, conteining in length an hundred foot, vpon a vawt of twelue foot high, ordeined for the cellar and butterie: and the breadth of the hall six and thirtie foot.
There sate distant from him about two yardes his brother, and next vnto him a boy oftwelue yeares of age, who was inheritor to the Emperor of Casan, conquered by this Emperor 8 yeares past.
There is in hempe ockam fiue thousand pound two hundred weight in twelue sackes at the least: the flaxe that came downe in the Nassadaes with those seuen podes that came last is all spunne with a good part of that hempe that came last.
After I had remained twelue daies, the Secretary which hath the hearing of strangers did send for me, aduertising me that the Dukes pleasure was to haue me to come before his Ma.
The names of the twelue Counsellors appointed in this voyage.
If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an Oake And peg-thee in his knotty entrailes, till Thou hast howl'd away twelue winters Ar.
Twelue yere since (Miranda) twelue yere since, Thy father was the Duke of Millaine and A Prince of power: Mira.
And the wall of the citee hadde twelue foundamentis, and in hem the twelue names of twelue apostlis and of the lombe.
The prince being thus accompanied, with these worthie capteins and men of armes, to the number of twelue hundred, beside a thousand archers and other footmen, indeuored by all waies he could deuise to indamage them within.
The whole number of this armie was not aboue twelue thousand men.
About the end of August, the like death began in diuerse places of England, and especiallie in London, continuing so for the space of twelue moneths following.
These speeches being finished, there was brought foorth certain peeces of blacke silke of twelue vares[17] long a peece.
He hathtwelue principall or chiefe captaines, and euerie one of them hath the gouernement of an infinite number of people and hath great rent for the same, for he that hath least rent hath sixe hundred thousand ducats yearely.
All their sugar milles and other places are inhabited with negros, of the which there may be in that ilande about twelue thousand.
And Mars goeth about the twelue signes in two yeare.
I am now of all humors, that haue shewed themselues humors, since the old dayes of goodman Adam, to the pupill age of this presenttwelue a clock at midnight.
Our meeting is Bridgenorth: and Harry, you shall march Through Glocestershire: by which account, Our Businesse valued some twelue dayes hence, Our generall Forces at Bridgenorth shall meete.
Ten or twelue of our Souldiours ranne vp the hill, whereof the enemy tooke one, and presently cut him in foure peeces.
Twelue thinges ther be, whiche the holy fathers woulde haue to barre persons from contracting of matrimonie, and to disseuer them againe, yf thei be contracted.
Eight Wilde-Boares rosted whole at a breakfast: and but twelue persons there.
Mary sir, that yong Leartes intwelue venies At Rapier and Dagger do not get three oddes of you, And on your side the King hath laide, And desires you to be in readinesse.
Whiche perilous state and imminent daunger that they now stande in, I thought it good to auoide, by placeyng twelue of these poore people into euery fishynge Shippe, accordyng to this Platte.
And why you appointe twelue of them to euery Shipp: I thinke they maie carie the Shippe awaie, & become Pirates.
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