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  • And I knowe he wyll come with so great power (for your ayde) as hee is able to make, for the father of the Assirian kyng, whiche nowe raigneth, was his frende.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Moreouer he commaunded Gadatas and Gobryas, to carrie the fairest apparell they coulde get, to his good and honest frende that was dead, and to assemble his oxen and horse, and all his beastes and cattell, whersoeuer they were, that they might be sacrificed to Abradatas.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • "A compendious and a very fruitful treatise teaching the waye of dyenge well, written to a frende by the floure of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, late deceassed, on whose sowle Jesu have mercy. 1541."

    Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 Various

  • With whiche wordes, Cyrus was driuen into greate sorowe, clapping him selfe vppon the thighe, and by and by mounted on his horse, and taking with him M. horsemen, he went to mourne for his frende Abradatas.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Afterwardes, Menalippus remembring the constancie of his frende, and the crueltye by him stoutly suffered, went to Phalaris and confessed vnto him that not onely he was priuy to that treason, but also was the aucthour thereof.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Votes of Bishopps in the house of Peeres, gave occasyon to some to believe, and opportunity to others to conclude and publish that he was no frende to the Church, and the established goverment of it, and troubled his very frends much, who were more confident of the contrary, then præpared to answer the allegations.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • To conclude, he was the worthyest gentleman, the best master, the best frende, the best husbande, the best father, and the best

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • Crumwell (though the greatest Dissembler livinge) alwayes made his hypocrisy of singular use and benefitt to him, and never did any thinge, how ungratious or imprudent soever it seemed to be, but what was necessary to the designe; even his roughnesse and unpolishednesse which in the beginninge of the Parliament he affected, contrary to the smoothnesse and complacency which his Cozen and bosome frende

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • Upon an occasionall discource with a frende of the frequent and uncharitable reproches of Heretique and Schismatique to lightly throwne at each other amongst men who differr in ther judgement, he writt a little discource of Schisme, contayned in lesse then two sheetes of paper, which beinge transmitted from frende to frende in writing, was at last without any malice brought to the view of the

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • Then Cyrus asked him, who gaue him counsaile to inuade his countrie, to make his frende his foe.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

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