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Nothing at all aboue the head remained, Either for couert, or that force maintained.

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For he himselfe shall liue vpon water and otemeale mingled together cold, and drinke water therto, his horse shall eat green wood, and such like baggage, and shall stand open in the cold field without couert, and yet wil he labour and serue him right wel.

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Hercole Martiningo with his garrison, and so were repulsed by our company, who fought without any aduantage of couert, the vaimure being throwen downe by the mine.

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I being in the citie at that present, when other of my countreymen were thus miserably slaine and made slaues, hid my selfe in certaine of the Grecians houses the space of fiue dayes, and they not being able to keepe mee in couert any longer for feare of the great penaltie, which was proclaimed agaynst such transgressors and concealers, I offred, and gaue my selfe slaue to one Sangiaccho del

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Then now to giue new couert to mine head, Were to reuiue our foes halfe conquered.

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We dissemble againe vnder couert and darkes speaches, when we speake by way of riddle (_Enigma_) of which the sence can hardly be picked out, but by the parties owne assoile, as he that said:

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

And ye shall know that we may dissemble, I meane speake otherwise then we thinke, in earnest as well as in sport, vnder couert and darke termes, and in learned and apparant speaches, in short sentences, and by long ambage and circumstance of wordes, and finally aswell when we lye as when we tell truth.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Bicause it hath beene thought a thing vnworthie, that the people descended of the noble linage of Dardanus should be otherwise dealt with than the honour of their nobilitie dooth require: they haue withdrawne themselues within the close couert of the woods.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

Cesar with sore fight tooke at length the towne of Cassibellane, situat betwixt two marches, fensed also with the couert of woods,

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

Cassibellane not minding to trie the matter anie more by battell, sent awaie the most part of his people, but yet kept with him about a foure thousand charretmen or wagoners, and still watched what waie the Romans tooke, coasting them euer as they marched, and kept somewhat aside within the couert of woods, and other combersome places.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed