Eliote says he wrote the whole "in a merrie phantasicall vaine to confirme and stir up the wit and memorie of the learner," and "diversified it with a varietie of stories no lesse authenticall than the devices of Lucian's dialogues.
Newlie enriched with a varietie of wordes, phrases, proverbs and divers lightsome observations of Grammar.
Hee reigned in great varietie of opinion with his Subiects (some applauding his vertues, others aggrauating his vices) twelue yeeres, eleuen moneths wanting eight dayes: and was at his death fourtie and three yeeres old.
The assaults were so liuely enforced, and with such varietie of inuention and deuise; that a wide way was opened through all impediments, and the defendants were constrained by many necessities, to desire faire conditions of yeelding.
These went together to visit the French King, lying at Conflance: where entertaining the time with varietie of disports, Henry played with Louis then Daulphine of France at Chesse, and did win of him very much.
For he seemed not so much to regard his substantiall good, as a vaine breath of praise, and the fruitlesse fauour of mens opinions, which are no fewer in varietie then they are in number.
He tooke away the deceit which had been occasioned by varietie of measures, and made a measure by the length of his owne arme: which hath been Commonly vsed euer since by the name of a yard.
A signe whereof you rightly may aread Their colours changeable varietie First clear and white, then yellow, after red, Then blewly pale, then duller still, till perfect dead.
I speake not of the sundry shapes of beasts, The severall colours of the Elements, Whose mixture shapes the worlds varietie In making all things by their colours knowne.
I wonder what varietie of sights Retaines your father and the prince so long With signior Flores?
Great varietie of finches and other small birds whereof one very small calld a whinne bird marked with fine yellow spotts and lesser than a wren.
Ruffes a marsh bird of the greatest varietie of colours euery one therein somewhat varying from other.
And therefore the expert and cunning workemen in elder time for the feminine sex, did vse more chamfering and channelling and doublevarietie then for the masculine, because of their slippery and vnconstant nature.
Some wantonly disposed, others to varietie of sportes and feastes, with liuely indeuours and quicke motions, most singularlye well set foorth, and filling all ouer the aforesayde arched suffite.
We, hauing no such varietie of accidents, haue little or no vse of this figure.
This Arte, is very ample in varietie of Conclusions: and very profitable sundry wayes to the Common Wealth.
But of the twelve other vertues I make XII other knights the patrons, for the more varietie of the historic: Of which these three bookes containe three.
Which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for varietie of matter then for profite of the ensample.
But the most varietieof yron commeth by the meanes of the water, wherein the yron red-hot is eftsoones dipped and quenched for to be hardened.
As for the diverse colours which they cast forth, it never happeneth but in a darke or shaddowie place: whereby a man may know, that the varietie of colours is not in the stone Iris, but commeth by the reverberation of the wals.
Cyzicene before them) and these we haue in like maner of diuerse quantities, and no lesse varietie also of our muskles and cockles.
The artificiall varietie of which kind of ware is so great here in England, as no place else (in mine opinion) can be comparable therein to this Ile.
And euen as it fareth with our gardens, so dooth it with our orchards, which were neuer furnished with so good fruit, nor with such varietie as at this present.
When the companie saw this, they made no small accompt of their successe, and foorthwith began to practise the like in other mixtures, whereby great varietie of the said stuffe did also insue.
Neither will I meddle with our varietie of [Sidenote: Beards.
When they exceede, and hauevarietie of dishes, the first are their baked meates (for roste meates they vse little) and then their broathes or pottage.
By reason of the varietie of the windes and dangerous flats of the Caspian sea, they beat it vp and downe some 20.
To neglect all daintinesse andvarietie of meates, and to content themselues with that which commeth next to hand, for more hardnesse, and readines in the executing of their affaires.
Great varietie of finches[48] and other small birds whereof one very small [one crossed out] calld a whinne bird marked with fine yellow spotts & lesser than a wren.
Ruffes[31] a marsh bird of the greatest varietie of colours euery one therein somewhat varying from other.
Amongst the Chinos is found no varietie in the declaration of this mightie city, and of the great riches that is in it, which is a signe to be of a truth for that they agree all in one.
But this was by relation so, that the one nor the other could satisfie, for that there was founde varietie in that which was true, till the yeere of 1577.
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