I grieve not now that old Menanders veine Is ruin'd to survive in thee againe; Such in his time was he of the same peece, The smooth, even naturall Wit, and Love of Greece.
The middle is between the two, Corall he is clipped also That veine cleanseth withouten doubt; Above and beneath, within and without.
Now herkne a tale that is soth: 2780 Thogh it be noght of loves kinde, A gret ensample thou schalt finde This veine gloire forto fle, Which is so full of vanite.
This vice veine gloire is hote, Wherof, my Sone, I thee behote To trete and speke in such a wise, That thou thee myht the betre avise.
And understond that al this peine, Which thou schalt soffre thilke tide, Is schape al only for thi pride Of veine gloire, and of the sinne Which thou hast longe stonden inne.
And fell withinne a time so, As he in Babiloine wente, The vanite of Pride him hente; His herte aros of veine gloire, So that he drowh into memoire His lordschipe and his regalie With wordes of Surquiderie.
I remember I heard him say that the earle of Rochester[203] was the only man in England that had the true veine of satyre.
Another pipe may be tied to this end and put into the veine of another living creature at the same time.
Whylom ther was a man that hadde assayed with stryvinge wordes another man, the whiche, nat for usage of verray vertu but for proud veine glorie, had taken up-on him falsly the name of a philosophre.
Have now heer and understonde, in the lightnesse of swich pryde and veine glorie, how a man scornede festivaly and merily 85 swich vanitee.
Veine Je suis en veine de le faire = I am just in the humour to do it.
Some commend the veineof white free stone, slate, and meere stone, which is betweene Pentowen, and the blacke head in Cornewall, for verie fine stuffe.
That these baths or waters are deriued [Sidenote: The Pyritis is found almost in euerie veineof mettall in great plentie, diuersities and colour, and somtimes mixed with that mettall of whose excrements it consisteth.
England, that there are verie few of them, which haue not the vse and skill of sundrie speaches, beside an excellent veine of writing before time not regarded.
Herein is a veine of meane seacole, which the people dig out of the shore at the low water; and in this Iland dwelled one Henrie sometime a famous heremite, who (as his life declareth) came of the Danish race.
There is a veine of earth along the sea coast for the space of fourtie or fiftie miles, whereof by the iudgement of some that have made triall heere in England, is made good Allum, of that kinde which is called Roche Allum.
Gentleman of our company, a greatveine of hard ragge stones, which I thought good to remember vnto you.
There is a veine of earth along the sea coast for the space of fortie or fiftie miles, whereof by the iudgement of some that haue made triall here in England, is made good Allum, of that kind which is called Roch allum.
Gentleman of our company, a great veine of hard ragge stonnes, which I thought good to remember vnto you.
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