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  • Which induceth Cyprian to call it, Foecundam et multiplicem perniciem, fontem cladium et seminarium delictorum, a fruitful mischief, the seminary of offences, and fountain of murders.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quis dabit in lachrymas fontem mihi? quis satis altos

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quis dabit in lachrymas fontem, &c. What shall I do?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Thus of their goods and bodies we can dispose; but what shall become of their souls, God alone can tell; his mercy may come inter pontem et fontem, inter gladium et jugulum, betwixt the bridge and the brook, the knife and the throat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et ante portam aquilonarem intra templum fontem aquæ mundæ, qui quamuis olim exundabat, tamen nunc minimè fluit.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Alia est autem via, vt de Babylonia intret Dyrcen deserta, tendens ad quendam fontem, quem dicitur Moses [Marginal note: Vel Maus.] fecisse: et hinc ad riuulum Marach, qui quondam, Mose imponente lignum, ab amaritudine dulcescebat, et sic tandem in premissam vallem perueniant.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Ad extremos fines Indiæ ab Oriente, circa fontem Gangis, Astomorum gentem sine ore, corpore toto hirtam vestiri frondium lanugine, halitu tantùm viuentem et odore quem naribus trahant: nullum illis cibum, nullumque potum: tantum radicum florumque varios odores et syluestrium malorum, quæ secum portant longiore itinere, ne desit olfactus, grauiore paulò odore haud difficulter examinari.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Habetur et alius puteus aut fons intra illa montana, quem plerique similiter fontem

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et fama quidem accepi, ipse non sum expertus, existere similem fontem in

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Idem, Viret æternùm contexens fontem igneum fraxinus.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

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