bountie

He had an inclination to glory, but it was tempered more with rashness and fury than with moderation and counsell: his liberalities were without discretion, measure, or distinction, immoveable oftentimes in his purposes, but that was rather an ill-grounded obstinacy than constancie, and that which many call bountie deserved more reasonably in his the name of coldnesse and slacknesse of spirit. "[

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

Some part of the Jewells he gave to him, who had beene at cost with marriage feasting, and some to his the Abbot, beside a bountie bestowed on Monkes.

The Decameron 2004

And surely when I considered of late the memorable bountie of sir Thomas

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And forasmuch as our Imperiall highnesse is giuen to vnderstand that your most excellent Regall Maiestie doth excell in bountie and curtesie, we therfore haue sent out our

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Call to minde that mighty princes haue beene reiected of their inferiors, how much more then a base and abiect person, but tract of time giueth place to them which expect the bountie thereof.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Therefore I would haue thee to vnderstande, that the chiefe woorkeman in the creation of nature, did make no thyng comparable to mee, neyther can the earth shew thee greater treasure then to come to my presence and taste of my bountie, obtaine my fauour and participate of my qualitie.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

But sith he continued his extremitie euen to his last daies, we may rather beléeue, that although from his childhood he shewed some tokens of clemencie, bountie, and liberalitie; yet by following the wars, and practising to reigne with sternenesse, he became so inured therewith, that those peaceable vertues were quite altered in him, and in maner clearelie quenched.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror Raphael Holinshed

Heere without all doubte (for so I imagined by reason of the glorious bountie of the beautiful soile) is no habitation but for ciuill people, or rather for

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Whose bountie you have so much cause to honour: 105

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

Swagger, and drinke healths to his Graces bountie, 180

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman