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And Machomete felle often in the grete sikenesse, that men callen the fallynge evylle: wherfore the lady was fulle sorry, that evere sche toke him to husbonde.
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And therfore thei don gret worschipe thereto, and kepen it fulle besyly; And alle be it so, that it be drye, natheles zit he berethe gret vertue: for certeynly he that hathe a litille there of upon him, it helethe him of the fallynge evylle: and his hors schalle not ben a foundred: and manye othere vertues it hathe: where fore men holden it fulle precyous.
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Gabriel the angel cam for to speke with him; and for the gret lighte and brightnesse of the angelle, he myghte not susteyne him fro fallynge.
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And Machomete felle often in the grete sikenesse, that men callen the fallynge evylle: wherfore the lady was fulle sorry, that evere sche toke him to husbonde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Gabriel the angel cam for to speke with him; and for the gret lighte and brightnesse of the angelle, he myghte not susteyne him fro fallynge.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And therfore thei don gret worschipe thereto, and kepen it fulle besyly; And alle be it so, that it be drye, natheles zit he berethe gret vertue: for certeynly he that hathe a litille there of upon him, it helethe him of the fallynge evylle: and his hors schalle not ben a foundred: and manye othere vertues it hathe: where fore men holden it fulle precyous.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And knocke pryuely your brestes & that yf ye may with fallynge of teeres/after your meles reherce your lectures or some notabilytees of sermons or other holy thynges [that] ye haue herde or seen afore.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Lyche fallynge softe rayne droppes, I wyll hem [71] slea [72];
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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More feerce than fallynge rocks, more swefte than wynd;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Now knyghte, said Accolon unto Arthur, kepe the wel from me, but Arthur ansuered not ageyne, and gat hym suche a buffet on the helme that he made hym to stoupe nygh fallynge doune to the earthe.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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