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Thus doing, though you be Libertino patre natus {182}, you shall sodeinly grow Herculea proles {183}.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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And sodeinly turning my backe, as fast as I could runne, I conueighed my fearefull bodie by the helpe of my swift pacing feete, into the inward part of the darke places, penetrating through diuers crooked torments, ambagious passages and vnknowne waies.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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And sodeinly ispasurated and turning my selfe about, I might perceiue vpon one side of me many silique trees of _Aegypt_, with their ripe long coddes hanging and beating one against an other with the winde, had felled downe themselues, which when I perceiued, I was soone quieted, and beganne to make sport at my owne folly.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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[Burning Glasses.] being placed vpon the walles of Bysance, he multiplied so the heate of the Sunne, and directed the beames of the same against his enemies Nauie with such force, and so sodeinly (like lightening) that he burned and destroyed both man and ship.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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4.13.5: And sodeinly I saw a sea of wofull sorowes prest:
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