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- verb Obsolete spelling of
gave .
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Examples
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(M518) Captaine Vasseur in my name gaue certaine small trifles to all the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And while I stood beholding of them, they gathered themselues together about him, to the number of 4200. of those creatures, putting themselues in good order, before whom he set a platter, and gaue them the said fragments to eate.
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With them wee dranke Cosmos, and gaue vnto them a basket full of fruites and of bisket.
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Moreouer, they allowed vs two men, which draue our carts and gaue attendance vnto our oxen and horses.
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They gaue vs of their cowes milke to drink after that butter was cherned out of it, being very sower, which they cal
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And immediatly I put incense into the censer, and our bishop taking the censer perfumed him, and gaue him his benediction.
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Being arriued againe in England, and hauing seene the wickednes of that age, he gaue out this speach.
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And therefore all the kings of the east stood in awe of the sayd olde man, and gaue vnto him great tribute.
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And when I found fault with that custome demanding a reason thereof, one of them gaue me this answer: this we doe, least the wormes should eat his flesh, for then his soule should suffer great torments, neither could I by any meanes remooue them from that errour.
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Whereupon they gaue out concerning Sartach, that he was become a
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