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Horatius, and their ioye was the greater, for that the feare of their ouerthrowe was the nearer.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And he thinkethe, that the more peyne and the more tribulacioun, that thei suffren for love of here god, the more ioye thei schulle have in another world.
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And as for ioye or sorowe that the soule should suffre aftre this life, thei denied.
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Apostle instituted to be obserued in Decembre, with fasting and praier, thre wiekes and a haulfe before Christemas, when we close vp the last.viii. daies of that moneth, with greate ioye and feaste.
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Knightes ioye was turned into sorrowe, after they had lost so great an enemie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The ioye of the safe arriuall of these shippes in Holland was exceeding great: and postes were dispatched to euery principall towne and citty to publish these acceptable newes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And he thinkethe, that the more peyne and the more tribulacioun, that thei suffren for love of here god, the more ioye thei schulle have in another world.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[Sidenote: The mariage of a chaste woman.] comfort, to liue with a chaste woman, sober and continente, her vertues be a continuall pleasure, a passyng ioye.
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Troie stiffe did stande, my comforte Hector was, Priamus ioye, of Troie all the [m] life, the strength, and power, his death
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[Fol.lvj. r] [Sidenote: The loue of a harlotte.] that no calamitée can separate you: who so hopeth loue of a harlotte, or profite, he maie hope as for the fructe of a withe - red tree, gaine is all their loue, vice their ioye and delite.
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