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I thought ye knew all and more, ye aucthor, to explique to ones the significat of their exsystems with your nieu nivulon lead.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Straunge it was in the Senators eares soche a request, whereupon a proofe made how that rumour rose, Papirius was found the aucthor, who tolde before the Senate, his mo - ther alwaies inquisitiue to knowe that, whiche he should not tell, and thereupon he faigned that, whiche he might better tell.
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Iniust regiment of wemen, neyther yet am I mynded to retract or to call any principall point or proposition of the sam [e], till treuth and veritie do farther appear, but why that eyther your grace, eyther yit ony such as vnfeanedlie favourthe libertie of England should be offended at the aucthor of such a work I can perceaue no iust occasion.
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874
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I can not Deny the Writeing of a booke against the vsurped aucthoritie and Iniust regiment of wemen, neyther yet am I mynded to retract or to call any principall point or proposition of the sam [e], till treuth and veritie do farther appear, but why that eyther your grace, eyther yit ony such as vnfeanedlie favourthe libertie of England should be offended at the aucthor of such a work I can perceaue no iust occasion.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878
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5.3.75: As for because my self was aucthor of the game,
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