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In the first setlinge of the Prince his family, he was made on of his Chaplynes, and attended on him when he was forced to leave the kingdome, and therfore we shall often have occasyon to mention him heareafter.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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In so moche [that] it suffyseth not them theyr luste gyuen by nature only/but they seke occasyon & craft by the sayd premysses to encreace theyr sayd luste & desyres to theyr grete dampnacõn/beware ther fore of ony costely habyte or suche vanytees &c.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Votes of Bishopps in the house of Peeres, gave occasyon to some to believe, and opportunity to others to conclude and publish that he was no frende to the Church, and the established goverment of it, and troubled his very frends much, who were more confident of the contrary, then præpared to answer the allegations.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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Also yf ony persone in worde sygne or dede [thou] haste offended & gyuen ony cause or occasyon of greuaûce.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Also ye shall not be to rauenous in takyng of your sayd game as to moche at one tyme: whyche ye maye lyghtly doo, yf ye doo in euery poynt as this present treatyse shewyth you in euery poynt, whyche lyghtly be occasyon to dystroye your owne dysportes & other mennys also.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Howe and by what incydent y siege was reysed before the towne of Affryke, and by what occasyon, and howe euery man retourned to their owne countreis,
Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812
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I haue received your letter of the 25 June by the Ship Falcon, by which, as also by letter from Jno Jolliff I take good nottice of your loue to me and reddyness to furder me in my occasyons there for which I yeeld you most bartye thankes and dessyre the contynuance thereof as occasyon shall bee.
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I haue received your letter of the 25 June by the Ship Falcon, by which, as also by letter from Jno JoUiff I take good nottice of your loue to me and reddyness to furder me in my occasyons there for which I yeeld you most hartye thankes and dessyre the contynuance thereof as occasyon shall bee.
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/kepynge my tonge & conscyence clene & to flee bacbytyng & stryues/& to gyue none occasyon of greuaûce neuer grutchyng/
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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_ No, thay be nat permyttyd to be with her, lest that peraduenture by occasyon of that religyon, thay shuld be plukkyd | | B ij. | | frome thayr owne religyõ, and whylst thay kepe that virgyne, thay regard very lytle thayr awne virgynyte, alonly in that inner chapell whiche is our ladyes preuy chãbre, ther standithe a certayne Chanõ at the autre.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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