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A quyet Harbour was neuer so welcome to a destressed Marryner, in a stormy, darke, and tempesteous winter night: nor the wished and oportune fall of rayne, at the prayer of _Cræsus_, as the louing consent of this daintie Nymph: more welcome to mee, then bloody broyles to warlike

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Strive, strive to set these civill broyles at one,

Davids Hainous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavie Punishment. 1608-1661 1869

A difference [_is_] 'twixt broyles and bloudie warres, --

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

With broyles and quarrels sets all Greece on fire:

Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight 1678

But as for such who have busied themselves in many broyles, or have beene vehement in the prosecution of any lust, as the ambitious, the amorous, the wrathfull man, these still retaine the glimpses and dreames of such things as they have performed in their bodies, which makes them either altogether unfit to remaine there where they are, or else keepes them long ere they can put off their soules.

The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643

And amongst sundry his worthy workes, this is recorded of him, that he pacified certaine grieuous ciuile dissentions that arose among the citizens of Verona: whereas otherwise, if by his graue aduise and great diligence they had not bene preuented, the matter was likely to broke out into hot broyles of warre.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

846: Who broyles in lowd applause, and make him fall

Troilus and Cressida (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623