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They affirme also that there is another sorte of women that conceiue at fyue yeres olde, and liue not aboue the age of viii. yeres.
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They are very little stature, as of the heyght of fyue or sixe spannes, and some muche lesse.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Jewes, to the number of fyue thousande or thereabout.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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And from thence, shee and her companion brought mee from thys garden to an other, where I behelde an arching _Areostile_, from the ground bent to the toppe, fyue paces in height and three ouer, and thus continued rounde about the compasse of the garden, in an orderly and requisite proportioning, all inuested and couered ouer with greene yuie, so that no part of the wall was to be seene.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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¶ Also vse for to saye dayly knelynge in remembraûce of the passyon of our lorde & his fyue woûdes/& of the grete compassion of our blessyd lady .v.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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For frõ hence forthe ther shalbe fyue in one howse deuyded/thre against two/and two against thre.
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Þ {o} u wyl cast þese twene nomb {re} s to-ged {ur} & say þ {a} t it is fyue.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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There is some variation here; the first edition has, after the word _souerayne_, the following: -- “laye trenchours before hym/yf he be a grete estate, lay fyue trenchours/& he be of a lower degre, foure trenchours/& of an other degre, thre trenchours,” &c.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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They affirme also that there is another sorte of women that conceiue at fyue yeres olde, and liue not aboue the age of viii. yeres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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What tell you me of moystenes, whã it was mylkyd more than a thowsand and fyue hunthrithe yere agone, it is so congelyd, that a mã wold | | saye that it were chalke temperyd with the whyte of a egge.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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