And in places where there are alwayes woont to be most horrible tempests, we found most quiet calmes which was very troublesome to those ships which be the greatest of all other, and cannot go without good windes.
Seruice and ceremonies haue they none at all, onely they are woontto worship heauen.
Helena, where the Portugall caraks in their returne from the East India were alwayes till now woont to arriue to refresh themselues with water and victuals.
It remaineth now we speake two or three wordes of those Sermons the Bonzii are woont to make, not so many as ours in number, but assuredly very well prouided for.
He is woont to sleepe vpon the drie land many times, and if there come in the meane time any man or beast and wake or disquiet him, he speedeth well if he get from him.
I send your Lordship also two rolles which the women in these parts are woont to weare on their heads when they fetch water from their welles, as wee vse to doe in Spaine.
And therefore the Citizens of Padua, were woont to take it done of spighte unto them, when any gentleman of Venice walked up & downe their citie in his coate, as though he thought him selfe in the countrey.
I speake it not arrogantly, I take God to witnesse: but mens painefull trauels ought not lightly to be condemned: nor surely at any time are woont to be of the learned, or discreet.
Footnote: In Iuly the heat is so extreme in this Iland, that the inhabitants thereof are not woont to trauell, but by night onley.
Georges Iland, a place where Christians dying aboord the ships, are woont to be buried.
And the old way which the riuer Ganges was woont to run, remaineth drie, which is the occasion that the citie doeth stand so farre from the water.
Then I assembled my men to demand their aduice, as I waswoont to do in all mine enterprises.
When they goe to warres they cary about with them their idol, of whom they aske counsel, as the Romans were woont of the Oracle of Apollo.
M371) When a King dyeth, they burie him very solemnly, and vpon his graue they set the cuppe wherein he was woont to drinke: and round about the sayde graue they sticke many arrowes, and weepe and fast three dayes together without ceasing.
So that it seemeth here to be founde two contraries in one subiect, a thing which, in philosophie, they were woont to count impossible.
These ilandes were woont to haue warre the one with the other, when occasion did force them.
Woont ye have brown bread a-put ye, An' some vinny cheese a-cut ye?
The wheels woont wag, then, I mid dr[=e]ve the plow!
Aye, better chaps woont goo, not many steps vor you, If you do hawk yourzelf about.
Use em well, they'll use you better; In good turns they woont be debtor.
He was woont to paie also vnto the court of Rome at his admission to that see 1300 ducats or florens, as I read, which was an hard valuation, considering the smalnesse of circuit belonging to his see.
England in foughten battels, were woontto remaine among them (who were their footmen) as the French kings did amongst their horssemen: the prince thereby shewing where his chiefe strength did consist.
Osmond (as they call him) because he builded the minster there, and made the portesse called Ordinale ecclesiastici officij, which old preests were woont to vse.
Certes this errour was woont also greatlie to reigne in Cambridge and Oxford, betweene the students and the burgesses: but as it is well left in these two places, so in forreine counteies it cannot yet be suppressed.
Her eyes God wot what stuffe they are, I durst be sworne each is a starre: As cleere and bright aswoont to guide The Pylot in his winter tide.
And these be things that a poet or maker is woont to describe sometimes as true or naturall, and sometimes to faine as artificiall and not true.
He that speakes me fairer, than his woont was too Hath done me harme, or meanes for to doo.
That voyage is woont to be made in fiue and twentie or thirtie dayes, but we were foure moneths, and at the ende of three moneths our ship was without victuals.
But she as woont rather to rule, than to be ruled, and thereto counselled by the dukes of Excester and Summerset not onelie denied to come, but also assembled a great armie, intending to take the king by fine force out of the lords hands.
And that burial which hath most priests and musicke is most sumptuous, wherin they were woont to spend great riches.
Osmond (as they call him) because he builded the minster there, and made the portesse called Ordinale ecclesiastici officij, which old préests werewoont to vse.
He was woont to paie also vnto the court of Rome at his admission to that see 1300 ducats or florens, as I read, which was an hard valuation, considering the smalnesse of circuit belonging to his sée.
He was woont to haue this saieng in his mouth, that better it was that the subiects should haue store of monie and riches, than the prince to kéepe it close in his treasurie, where it serued to no vse.
His standard also, which was woont to be borne before him in battell, was set vp in the same tree.
This doone he passed ouer the riuer of Loir, and wan a castell situat neere vnto a promontorie or head of land called Grapelitum, which was woont to be a great succour & aid to Englishmen arriuing on that coast.
I send your lordship also two rolles which the women in these parts are woont to weare on their heads when they fetch water from their welles, as wee vse to doe in Spaine.
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