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The princes and capitaines entre not the battle, but standyng aloofe, crye vnto their men, and harten them on: lookinge diligently aboute on euery side what is nedefull to be done.
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In this it is fautye to come to the kynd that is nye vnto it, whyche is called dissolute, because it waueth hyther and thyther, as it were wythout senowes and ioyntes, standyng surely in no poynte.
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It was also comelie, the kyngdome standyng in perill, a sage and descrite persone to preuente and putte of, soche a daunger at
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And so after he had made his humble supplication to God on his knees, he arose, and standyng vpon the coales sayd on this wise.
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Balyn's swerd was put in a marbel stone standyng up ryght as grete as a mylle stone, and the stone hoved alweyes above the water, and dyd many yeres, and so by adventure it swam doun the streme to the Cyte of Camelot that is in Englysshe Wynchestre. '
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In our forefathers tyme, whan Papistrie, as a standyng poole, couered and ouerflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, sauyng certaine bookes of Cheualrie, as they
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Mortrowis of houndfisch {e} [223]/& Rice standyng {e} [224] white,
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The princes and capitaines entre not the battle, but standyng aloofe, crye vnto their men, and harten them on: lookinge diligently aboute on euery side what is nedefull to be done.
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This diligence to gather examples, to giue light and vnder - standyng to good preceptes, is no new inuention, but speciallie vsed of the best Authors and oldest writers.
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As, to see in the Ayre, a loft, the lyuely Image of an other man, either walkyng to and fro: or standyng still.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
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