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According to the princess, the council had apparently claimed that "it were myne honor and a poynt of commen justice not to imtromit therwith, the matier being litigiouse."
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But they credite the matier, assone as thei haue red the superscription, or heard the name of the sender.
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The holy fathers woulde haue but one mariage at ones, and that not in secrete but with open solemnitie eyther in the churche, or in the churche porche, and so that the priest be called to the matier.
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But that whiche was mixed with waterie moisture, to haue rested in the place, for the heauinesse thereof, and of the watery partes, the sea to haue comen: and the matier more compacte to haue passed into a clamminesse firste, and so into earth.
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Yea, thoughe he woulde dissemble the matier, and denie him self to be sicke, it boteth not.
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When they haue matier of moste importaunce to common of, thei debate and conclude in the middes of their cuppes: thinkyng it muche surer that is so determined, then aftre any other sobrer sorte.
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One bonde of belief then so coupled and ioyned them: that for a space it made to them no matier whether ye called them all by one name, Saracenes, or Turkes.
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"Robot Inspector," he cried, "How do you fight I'or AJma-lik when you won't even help me in this important matier?"
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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Wherfore seinge the papistes do bothe thincke and teache otherwise in this matier then the holie scripture dothe teache/and do defend their errour with an obstinate mynde they are heretikes.
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And yet les I shuld seeme to be to rigorus and strayte in this matier of massehauntinge/let ther be hadd a consideracion/or difference of the matier/and doinge.
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