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- verb Obsolete spelling of
serve .
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Examples
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Yes quod she, I am assured, I haue none so dishonest, that would deny my request in that behalfe, but willbe as willing to serue me now as before.
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Written for his Melancholicke Friend: M, it was designed to discourse of the nature of melancholie, what causeth it, what effectes it worketh, how cured, and farther to lay open, whatsoeuer may serue for the knowledge thereof.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Speaking of the New Granada Indians he tells us that at Old Port (Porto Viejo) and Puna, the Deuill so farre prevayled in their beastly Deuotions that there were Boyes consecrated to serue in the Temple; and at the times of their
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Written for his Melancholicke Friend: M, it was designed to discourse of the nature of melancholie, what causeth it, what effectes it worketh, how cured, and farther to lay open, whatsoeuer may serue for the knowledge thereof.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Written for his Melancholicke Friend: M, it was designed to discourse of the nature of melancholie, what causeth it, what effectes it worketh, how cured, and farther to lay open, whatsoeuer may serue for the knowledge thereof.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Make what use yowe pleas of thiss informasion: and belieue me to haue no other motife, than to serue yowe, becavs of yowre vartues, whiche make yowe deserue a better retorne, I am, thof I shall not set my trewe name, yowre grete admirer and seruant,
Pamela 2006
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The menne of warre serue onely for the defence of their countrey.
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The chauncelle to serue onely for the priestes, and clerkes.
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In bancquettes of honour, in the place of our fruicte (which the latine calleth the seconde boorde) they serue in rawe flesshe very finely minced and spiced, whervpon the gestes fiede very licouricely. 10 They haue no maner of wollen webbe, but are eyther cladde in sarsenettes, or in linnen.
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Whosoeuer therefore wanteth golde, diggeth till he hath found some quantitie, and then taking so much thereof as will serue his turne, he layeth vp the residue within the earth: because, if he should put it into his chest or storehouse, hee is of opinion that God would withholde from him all other gold within the earth.
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