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Examples
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Then wil I staine my milkwhite vaile with weeping, And as thine handmaide dye in sorrowes keeping.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For what should moue such great men, following the despightful lyes, and fables of mariners, to defame and staine our nation with so horrible and so shamefull a reproch?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For what should moue such great men, following the despightful lyes, and fables of mariners, to defame and staine our nation with so horrible and so shamefull a reproch?
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If scornefull speache or flouting sport do flowe in ripe wittes and lauishe tongues of womankinde let them beware they do not deale with the learned sort, least Maister Alberto with phisicke drougues, or Philenio with Sophist art do staine their face, or otherwise offende them with the innocencie of their great Graundmother Eue when she was somoned from Paradise ioye.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Suppos'd his staine that Ile not prove his luster?
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Come see, where your false Lady doth her honour staine.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Besides this cruell act wrought by king Edgar, for the satisfieng of his fleshlie lust, he also plaied another part greatlie to the staine of his honor, mooued also by wanton loue, with a yoong damosell named
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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So, bitter thoughts molest, uncleane thoughts staine And spot the Heart; while those idle and vaine Weare it, and to no purpose.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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So, bitter thoughts molest, uncleane thoughts staine And spot the Heart; while those idle and vaine Weare it, and to no purpose.
St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864
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Thy Fathers charge shal cleare thee from y staine.
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