Devidynge then in the middest the saied lengthe, there woulde be made on every hande of the Capitaine xl.
Howbeit wee, not knowing whether they vsed inchantments, or whether they bowed their knees to God or to some other, woulde not kneele vpon the grounde with them.
Then put they vs to our choyce, whither we wouldehaue cartes and oxen, or packehorses to transport our cariages.
And yet, according to Xenophon, the old Gentleman was soe rouged and made up, as that none but a Child woulde have admired him!
Neither of 'em woulde confesse, and Jack was, therefore, sentenced to be whipt.
If I had Paper, I woulde beginne my projected Opus; but I dare not ask Gunnel for anie more just yet; nor have anie Money to buy Some.
Noe one woulde suppose me reckoning on a quiet Life if they knew how I've cried alle this Forenoon, ever since I got quit of Will, by Father's carrying him off to Westminster.
Why, Gossip," cries Father, "his Grace wouldemake two of me.
What Cause have I, then, to care soe greatlie for a House that woulde soe soone forget its Master?
Fancy how gladsome the sweet Spirit wouldebe to have the Shell cracked!
Woulde thy Mother suit me better, dost thou suppose, if she coulde discuss Polemicks like Luther or Melancthon?
Thus be these yemen to London gone, As fast as they might hye, Tyll they came to the kynges pallace, 55 Where they wouldenedes be.
No, none that hathe any witte in his head, for by and by they woulde saye thus vnto hym.
Peraduenture he woulde giue it them againe, and some whiles they doeso, if it strike in their braines.
I thought verily they woulde haue worried one another with wordes, they were so earnest and vehement.
Wherfore I could not possibly preuent it, but as a man woulde saie auoide it.
It was concluded betwixte vs, that I shoulde bee the Earle of Surrie, and hee my man, onely because in his owne person, which hee woulde not haue reproched, he meant to take more libertie of behauiour.
Wherevpon assuring themselues of victorie, (Miseri quod volunt facile credunt) that which wretches woulde haue they easily beleeue.
Faine woulde I be knowen where I was borne, fayne woulde I haue thee knowen where fame sits in her chiefest theater.
Affirming, that til in person he beheld his importunitie of pleading, he woulde not be perswaded anie man coulde carrie awaie a manifest case with rethorike, so straungely.
The alcumy of his eloquence, out of the incomprehensible drossie matter of clouds and aire, distilled no more quintescence than woulde make his Geraldine compleat faire.
The Normans stode aloofe, nor hede the same, Their arrowes woulde do dethe, tho' from far of they came.
Nowe dethe as welcome to mee comes, 205 As e'er the moneth of Maie; Nor woulde I even wyshe to lyve, Wyth my dere wyfe to staie.
Thou beest a worme so groffile and so smal, I wythe thie bloude woulde scorne to foul mie sworde, Botte wythe thie weaponnes woulde upon thee falle, Alyche thie owne feare, slea thee wythe a worde.
Erie Leofwinus throwghe the campe ypass'd, And sawe bothe men and erlies on the grounde; They slepte, as thoughe they woulde have slepte theyr last, And hadd alreadie felte theyr fatale wounde.
Woulde ytte here phrase of the vulgar from the hynde, Withoute wiseegger[10] wordes and knowlache[11] free?
Albeytte everyche thynge yn lyfe conspyre To telle me of the faulte I nowe schulde doe, 825 Yette woulde I battentlie assuage mie fyre, And the same menes, as I scall nowe, pursue.
Dyddest thou kenne howe mie woes, as starres ybrente, Headed bie these thie wordes doe onn mee falle, Thou wouldestryve to gyve mie harte contente, 310 Wakyng mie slepynge mynde to honnoures calle.
Englande, and woulde now with this prise returne home: for his victuals were almost spent.
The holy fathers woulde haue but one mariage at ones, and that not in secrete but with open solemnitie eyther in the churche, or in the churche porche, and so that the priest be called to the matier.
But the General perceiuing that the enemie woulde not abandon the place, with a valiant courage made to the shore, and altogether leaping into the water vp to the middle, maintained the fight with the enemy.
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.
Furthermore thei woulde that ther should be a pulpite in the middes of the churche, wherein the prieste maye stonde vpon Sondaies and holidayes, to teache the people those thinges that it behoueth them to knowe.
Whiche beeing all finished, then he demaundeth agayne of them what they woulde require of him.
And he that faine wouldeget the gallant rose, And will not reache, for feare his fingers bleede; A nettle, is more fitter for his nose?
And if you finde I doe, then ofte therefore reioyce: And thinke, I woulde suche neighbour haue, if I might make my choice.
But woulde you learne to keepe, that you do winne?
For he that shoulde have broughte out but a vulgare and a common commendacion, woulde have thoughte himself shamed for ever.
True it is, that the ladies viewing and marking the amiable countenance of the Montanine Damsell, woulde haue iudged for hir, if they feared not to bee refused of hym, whome the thing did touche most neere.
And that the day might not discouer hir, she woulde haue gone downe from the Toure, but she found the Ladder to be taken away.
Alas good Woman, had she known that olde malice had not bene forgotten, she woulde not haue trusted, and lesse committed hir selfe to the Circle of his Enchauntments.
And as Fortune woulde he founde by Neglygence of the mayds, the dores of the II.
But he loued to mutch his wife and children, and woulde kepe them company both in lyfe and death.
Alas, that my brother doe not so, rather I woulde to God of his owne accord he be the infamous minister of my life ready to be violated, if God by his grace take not my cause in hand?
Yf I would onely recite that whiche I coulde say there woulde be a register sufficient to fyl a whole boke.
To be short, yf a man woulde gather together all that hath bene founde of this crosse, there would be inough to fraighte a great ship.
Except there be any man, whiche may beleue that our Lorde God woulde inspire the righteousnesse of examination, to any one singular person, and to denie the same to priestes gathered together into counsaile without number, &c.
Antechriste therefore he must be, that vnder whatsoeuer colour woulde geue contrary precept or counsayle to that whiche Christe dyd geue vnto vs.
And yet, according to Xenophon, the old gentleman was soe rouged and made up, as that none but a child wouldehave admired him!
He, on his part, loves her and theire children with devotion, and wouldepass half his time in y^e nurserie.
And woulde you, my wife,' he returned, 'have me die guilty?
Howbeit, for certayn, Gammer Gurney is noe witch, or she woulde not so prayse God.
More for her protector, and his children for companions;' and then woulde heare more of her parents' sad story.
He was also a learned man, a clerk That Christes Gospel truly woulde preach; And his parishioners devoutly teach.
We all believe in the great God," quoth he; "He woulde sowe some difficulty, Or springe cockle in our clean corn.
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