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The Harvard Library owns a seventeenth-century English volume bearing the inscription The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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But then the fellowes began to pale, For quail are not the friende of ale!
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Thei be euer on horsebacke, whether thei go to the fielde or the banket, to bye, to selle, to commune of aughte with their friende, or to do any thing that is to be done.
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To slea mieselfe, mie love, & eke mie doughtie [9] friende.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Mie friende, Syr Hughe, whatte tydynges brynges thee here?
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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God silde alle godes friend wið swo euele friende.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Is there neither friende nor enemie to kill me, shamefullie haue I li - ued, and with more shame shall I die, in the .xxxij. yere of his age he died.
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Mithridanes enuious of the liberality of Nathan, and goinge aboute to kill hym, spake vnto him vnknowne, & being infourmed by himself by what meanes he might do the same he found him in a little wood accordingly as hee had tolde him, who knowinge him, was ashamed, and became his friende.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Hear from mie groted [59] harte the lover and the friende.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Butte here commes Celmonde, wordhie knyghte and friende.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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