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It is no laughing matter, my friends, it is a weeping matter, a heavie matter, a heavie matter.

The Abbot 2008

Buffalmaco taking uppe another Flintstone, which was indifferent heavie and sharp, said to

The Decameron 2004

Theobaldoes brethren, as also to every one there present; so that all former rancour and hatred which had caused heavie variances betweene them, was now converted to mutuall kindnesse and solemne friendship on every side.

The Decameron 2004

More than James Melville could have said at that time that they felt a 'cauld heavie lumpe' lying on their hearts.

Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

It hath an heavie coate of lead, wch wolde doe a verie goode service for the Mother Churche of Powles.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley

Estaites of this present parliament being informed of the heavie and abominable superstition used be divers of the lieges of this realm, be using of witchcraft, sorcerie, and necromancie, and credence given thereto in times by-gane, against the laws of God: And for avoyding and away putting of all sik vaine superstition in times to cum: It is statute and ordained by the Queen's Majestie, and the three

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

And shall hee that is all spirit (for whom the Angels are slow and colde enough) take pleasure in thy drowzie and heavie service?

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

Honner in his hart to his oun country, but the gifs are too heavie. '

The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan

As an illustration of transverse alliteration quite as complex as any in _Euphues_, we may notice the following: "Hard wittes be hard to receive, but sure to keep; painfull without weariness, hedefull without wavering, constant without any new fanglednesse; bearing heavie things, though not lightlie, yet willinglie; entering hard things though not easily, yet depelie [56]."

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

That which makes them so to charge themselves with matter, is the distrust they have of their owne sufficiency, and that they are not able to undergoe so heavie a burthen with their owne strength.

Of Bookes. 1909