elfe

And for thefe adions they fhall always call thee By no name elfe but fearful jealoufy.

A Select Collection of Old Plays 1780

In (hort, though it be (b evi - dent to fenfe, yet it is very hard to conceive, that there mould be any fuch thing as Motion in the World; that either Matter mould move of it felf, or that any thing elfe which is not Matter, fhould be able to do it.

Reflexions upon Mr. Toland's book, called Christianity not mysterious: with some considerations about the use of reason in matters of religion. In a letter to a friend 1701

Which when the wakeful elfe perceived, streightway

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

And now forgets the cruell carelesse elfe, his mothers heast to proue.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

I see the purpose of this Gentleman is but to check the fol [lie] of the Iustice, for blaming oth [er] s in a desperate case, wherin hims [elfe] may fall as soone as any

Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

But yet whosoeuer obserueth much, shalbe counted the wisest and discreetest man, and whosoeuer spends all his life in his owne vaine actions and conceits, and obserues no mans elfe, he shal in the ende prooue but a simple man.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

When they have eaten they lie down till the next low water, and then all that are able march out, be it night or day, rain or fhine, it is all one, they mud attend the wares or elfe they mufl; faft, for the earth aflFords them no food at all.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

As we fee experiently in al other faculties or myfleries, where fewefl Occupiers, be of the lame there be they moofl dangerous, and hardeft to be goten to do their facultie, and mooft exceffive in taking for the fame: as fcarfitie or raritie of any thing elfe maketh the fame deir.

Memorial of the Most reverend father in God Thomas Cranmer,sometime lord archbishop of Canterbury : Wherein the history of the church, and reformation of it, during the primacy of the said archbishop, are greatly illustrated; and many singular matters relating thereunto, now first published (1694.) 1812

Or elfe I feare left a grudge againft the Prince and his Cowncel, in fuche caufiss OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER.

Memorial of the Most reverend father in God Thomas Cranmer,sometime lord archbishop of Canterbury : Wherein the history of the church, and reformation of it, during the primacy of the said archbishop, are greatly illustrated; and many singular matters relating thereunto, now first published (1694.) 1812

But Captain Cook was the only one who tafted it; the manner of brewing it having quenched the thirft of every one elfe.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812