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I have had the use of it full fourescore yeares, with the consummation of all my delights and pleasures: and well I know, that according to the course of Nature (as it fares with other men, and generally all things else) it cannot bee long before it must leave mee.
The Decameron 2004
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Agra to Satagam in Bengala, in the companie of one hundred and fourescore boates laden with Salt, Opium, Hinge, Lead, Carpets, and diuers other commodities, downe the riuer Iemena.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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She liued to the age of fourescore yeeres, and then died at Rome the 15 day of August in the yeere of oure redemption 337.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Oda Bassi, Pursers, three hundred, at fiue aspers, maketh three thousand two hundred, and fourescore pounds.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cambaia, which they bring from thence in small barks, because there can no great shippes come thither, by reason of the sholdnesse of the water thereabouts, and these sholds are an hundred or fourescore miles about in a straight or gulfe, which they call
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Aspers the piece, amounteth to three thousand fourescore and foure pound, foure shillings.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Catergi, Carriers vpon Mules, two hundred, at fiue aspers, two thousand, one hundred, fourescore and ten pounds.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There were carried out an hundred and three and thirty bags, and in euery bagge, as it was tolde vs, one thousand ducats, which amounteth to three hundred and thirty thousand,342 and in sterling English money to fourescore and nineteene thousand pounds.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Bosphorus lieth a rocke some fourescore yards from the maine land, wherevpon standeth a white marble pillar called Pompeys pillar, the shadow whereof was 23 foote long at nine of the clocke in the forenoone: over against it is a turret of stone upon the maine land
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The fiue and fourtie thousand Ianizaries dispersed in sundry places of his dominions, at sixe aspers the day, amounteth by the yeere to fiue hundreth, fourescore and eleuen thousand, and three hundreth pounds.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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