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But thei that dwell towarde Egipte, kepe yet their olde name, and lyue by butin,26 like prickers of the bordre, wherin, the swiftenes of their camelles doeth them good seruice.
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The Troglodites (whiche are also named of the Grecians pastours, for their fieding and brieding of catteille) a people of Ethiope, do lyue in companies, and haue their heade ouer them, whome they call Tiraunte.
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Some of them lyue with herbes and the tender rootes of cannes or Riedes.
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Men also diseased of feures, oranye other incurable malady, they doe in lyke maner dispatche: iudginge it of all griefes the woorste, for that manne to liue, that canne nowe nothinge doe, why he shoulde desyre to lyue.
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And the other that lyue, thincke them selues dishonoured: and escape not without spotte of reproche as longe as they liue.
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This also is the chiefe cause of warre between the sophie of Persia and the great Turke, being neuerthelesse both Mahumetans, and lyue in mortall hatred one agaynst the other for the mayntenaunce of theyr sectes, saintes and apostles, whyle euery of them thynketh theyr owne to bee best.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Bygger: As for Milo, they saye he shulde not lyue that confesseth he hathe kylled a man, when M. Horacius was quitte, whyche kylled hys owne syster.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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¶ To thys generall may serue a perticuler taken oute of circumstaunces, that it oughte not to be done, inespecialy of Cicero, whych by so many laboures hathe gotten vnto hym selfe an excellente and euerlastyng name, and that hath shewed moste eloquently by putting out so manye noble workes that deathe ought to be despised, inespeciallye seynge that now he hath not much tyme to lyue beynge an olde man.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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Cicero agaynst Catiline: when they coulde not lyue honestlye, they had rather dye shamefully.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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For it is semely, and happeneth cõmonlye that the sonnes be lyke the forefathers, and thereof procedeth causes to lyue well or euyll: [Sidenote: Nacion] Naciõ sheweth what disposicion and maners euery nacion hath peculiarly of theyr owne.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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