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We were amasyd as and if a man had stryke vs with a clube, or we had be slayne with a thonderclape, and we very lowly axid pardon of oure folishe boldenes, and gote vs frome thens.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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He axid me if yt were nat I that dyd hange vpe there a table of my vowe writen in Hebrew, within .ij. yere before.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Which how holy axid godly foever jtbeybeoalled, they be indeed fo wicked, fo ungodly, fo fid,
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When abroad I K2. fbyCoOglc ISA VEUOIRS or MUEBf had been intimately acquainted with many of my couDttymen in foreign service, axid never knew one who did not legreL the horrid neces - sity of bearing arms occasionally against hir country.
Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont Francis Hardy 1812
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We once again therefore entered into a confultation upon obviating the malice of our enemies, axid at lall came to a reiolution which had too much cunning to give me entire fatisfa£iion.
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In 1661, at which time be was one of the burgesses in Parliament for the university of Cambridge, he was sworn a privy counsellor for Ireland, axid sent first as en - voy extraordinary, but afterwards endowed with a plenipotentiary commission to the court of Portu - gal, where he negotiated a mar - riage between his master.
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782
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While dimpled cheeks, axid fparkling, - rolling eyes.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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The Gauh and ton - 'gres who compofed the left Wing, whcrjc, commanded by Marcomire axid' taxAnder.
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| | C v. | | apõ hym, lawghynge as who shold saye I wold moue him to speake to me, at laste he cam to me, and axid me what was my name, I told him.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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«'ind great jilijtice, bestows tliis branch of antient Regalia upon one, whose services to himself have been so many axid eminent, and who by descent from noble blood, and an entail of noble
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