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  • "His courtesie was his nature, not his craft," quaintly says one historian.

    Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation 1893

  • This has not been tryed by me, but told me by a friend of note, that pretended to do me a courtesie: but if this direction to catch

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • “We find naught anywhere for sale, and have need of a host, who through his courtesie would give us of his bread to-night.”

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • I must give over all my honors, my fealty, and my courtesie, that God did bid me use.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • Bold Siegfried would fain also have done the same, but now he paid for his courtesie.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • No, I thank you: but I pray do us a courtesie that shal stand you and your daughter in nothing, and we wil think our selves stil something in your debt; it is but to sing us a

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Come Hostis, how do you? wil you first give us a cup of your best Ale, and then dress this Chub, as you drest my last, when I and my friend were hereabout eight or ten daies ago? but you must do me one courtesie, it must be done instantly.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Giselher and Gernot helped thereby with great courtesie.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • Sir, your request is granted, and I shall be right glad, both to exchange such a courtesie, and also to enjoy your company.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Ho, what great courtesie one found among the Burgundian men!

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

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