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For what cause should moue me to shunne the enuie and hate of some men, being ioyned with an endeuour to benefite and gratifie my countrey?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Euen as in war, dayly experience teacheth vs, that some vpon no iust & lawful grounds (being egged on by ambition, enuie, and couetise) are induced to follow the armie, and on the contrary side, that others arme themselues vpon iust and necessary causes: namely such as go to battell for the defence and propagation of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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O why should such immortall enuie dwell, In the enclosures of eternall mould?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A happie Nation, whose pouertie no man doth enuie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And there being made his secretarie, I gouerned the Erles Court (albeit with the enuie of some) as my selfe pleased, yea whom I would I abased, and preferred whom I thought good.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now, now, _Misfortune_ fronts our Knight in armes, And casts her venome through the _Spanysh_ hoast, Shee salues the dead, and all the lyuing warmes With vitall enuie, brought from _Plutos_ coast;
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Euen as in war, dayly experience teacheth vs, that some vpon no iust & lawful grounds (being egged on by ambition, enuie, and couetise) are induced to follow the armie, and on the contrary side, that others arme themselues vpon iust and necessary causes: namely such as go to battell for the defence and propagation of the
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For what cause should moue me to shunne the enuie and hate of some men, being ioyned with an endeuour to benefite and gratifie my countrey?
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A happie Nation, whose pouertie no man doth enuie.
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_Fame_ told _C鎠ar_ what of this was true, His Senate-murdred spirite would haue rose, And with faire honors enuie wondred then,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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