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I pray my Lord to suffir me to tak a lytle of my awin dinner! "

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Ther cut they out a trenche, broade and diepe enoughe to sette vp another lytle tent in: so that the toppe of the tent maye be well within the grounde.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

When their children be borne they bring them vp with so lytle coste, as a man would skantly belieue.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

As oute of lytle springs ariseth greate fluddes: so now these preceptes of grammer finyshed, and the fyrste order of the Rethorical figures: We nowe come vnto that greate declaracion of eloquence, called of

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

Why so? for the power whyche fortune had geuen vs, it to consume in the punyshement of them whom the same fortune a lytle before had set in hyeste degree, were agaynste reason.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

Catiline is compared to Gracchus, and the estate of the common wealthe to the whole world, & a lytle shakyng to slaughter, fyer and wastyng, and a priuate person to the consuls.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

[Sidenote: Miosis.] _Diminutio_, when greate matters are made lyghte of by wordes, as when he was wel beatẽ bi a knaue, that knaue wyll saye he dyd but a lytle stryke hym.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

[Sidenote: Tautologia.] _Inutilis repeticio eiusdem_, is a vayne repeting agayn of one word or moe in all one sentence, whyche faute by takyng lytle heede,

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

[Sidenote: Catachresis.] _Abusio_, when for a certeyne and proper worde, we abuse a lyke, or that is nie vnto it, as when we say: longe counsel, lytle talke, smal matter.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

¶ Wherefore after theyr example obtaynyng a lytle lesure, I red ouer sundrye treatises, as wel of those which wrot long ago, as of other now in our daies: fyndynge amonge them some to haue wrytten ouer brieflye, some confuselye, and falselye some.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry