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  • Note 164: Canon, 1.3.3, fols. 66va-b: "Nutrici preterea est precipiendum ut temperato utatur et ut nutrientibus boni chimi alatur et ne ullo modo aliquis cum ea coeat: hoc enim sanguinem permiscet menstruum, et lactis odorem corrumpit, et ipsius minuit quantitatem, immo fortasse impregnatur in quo nocumentum duobus attinens filiis existit." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Cap. 2. de Phisiologia sagarum: Quod alii minus recte fortasse dixerint, nos examinare, melius dijudicare, corrigere studeamus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nos quid ad haec dicemus, plures fortasse expectabunt, saith St. Austin.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Olim relictos — — — etsi non ignorarem novos fortasse detractores novis hisce interpolationibus meis minime defuturos.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et hinc foeta mater Salacea Oceani conjux, verbumque fortasse salax a sale effluxit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3764] Erimus fortasse (as he comforted himself) quando illi non erunt, when they are dead and gone, and all their pomp vanished, our memory may flourish:

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ne feriarentur fortasse typographi vel ideo scribendum est aliquid ut se vixisse testentur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I had as lief be still Democritus junior, and privus privatus, si mihi jam daretur optio, quam talis fortasse Doctor, talis Dominus. —

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without door, patienter ferendum, fortasse nos tale quid fecimus, quum in honore essemus, he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Idipsum incredibile fortasse, ni cogitimus in medio orbe terrarum, ac Sicilia et Italia fuisse, gentes huius monstri, Cyclopas et Laestrigonas, et nuperrimè trans

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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