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Misture Pohtaitoe Hed haz cum a laung wai frum beeyng jes a symple liddel toi;
this wat you do on weekend? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The trick is to make symple syrup to sweeten your lemonade.
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Thei scholden ben symple, meke and trewe, and fulle of almes dede, as Jhesu was, in whom thei trowe: but thei ben alle the contrarie, and evere enclyned to the evylle, and to don evylle.
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Thei ne ben not fulle resonable: but thei ben symple and bestyalle.
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Thei scholden ben symple, meke and trewe, and fulle of almes dede, as Jhesu was, in whom thei trowe: but thei ben alle the contrarie, and evere enclyned to the evylle, and to don evylle.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thei ne ben not fulle resonable: but thei ben symple and bestyalle.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In all thynges counte thyself vyle & symple/and as nothynge in regarde of vertue/& byleue all other to be good & better than thyself/& so shalt thou moost please god.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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In what these embellishments consisted is partially explained in the epilogue: "Therfore I William Caxton a symple persone haue endeuoyred me to wryte fyrst ouer all the sayd book of proloconycon, and somewhat haue chaunged the rude and old Englyssh, that is to wete certayn wordes, which in these dayes [1482] be neyther usyd ne understanden".
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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[Sidenote: Aschematistõ] _Male figuratum_, when the oracion is all playne and symple, & lacketh his figures, wherby as it wer wyth starres it might shyne: which faute is counted of wryters, not amonge the leaste.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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Paul therfor teachith by this sayinge/that in no wise the faithfull shuld come at the Idolatries of the vnfaithfull/but flye frõ them: which sentence is so playn to the vnderstondinge of the most symple/that it neadith no exposicion at all.
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