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The losse of a good wife and children, is a greate grefe to
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_ The child wille it not grefe, that lytylle day starne [33]?
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Hero to sale for distent shores, there asisted by that balm time and change, there assuage his grefe.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887
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Nowe because these moste outeragious and infinite massacres are put downe by Don Bartholmewe de las Casas, the bisshoppe above mentioned, and dedicated to Kinge Phillippe that nowe ys, which author testifieth that to his inspeakable grefe he was an eye witnesse of many of them, therefore it seemeth best unto me to bringe him in, which in his firste chapiter describeth the same in manner followinge: —
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Fraunces the Frenche kinge, and others: but shall be alwayes free from that bitter mischeefe, withoute grefe or hazarde to the marchaunte or to the state, and so alwaies readie at the comaundement of the prince with mariners, artillory, armor, and munition, ready to offende and defender as shalbe required.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Mak, take it to no grefe, if I com to thi barne. "
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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1.22.5: Where grefe tormentes the man that suffreth secret smart,
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4.29.19: Body deuoyde of grefe mynde free from care and dreede
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