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  • And then he put of his helme, and she sawe his vysage, she said; O swete Jhesu! the I must loue and neuer other.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Fayre knyght, I require the of thy knyghthode, shewe me thy vysage.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • ¶ Came forth Neptun {us} {with} vysage pale & feynt

    The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous

  • Beware also of vayne glory/lyftynge vp your vysage & voyce on hyghe as wymen done in the worlde.

    A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

  • Syke [6] woulde thie spryte upponn thie vysage spredde.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • And whan he behelde syr Launcelot's vysage, he felle donne in a sowne.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Botte thenn thie soughle woulde throwe thy vysage sheene,

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Ne ferce not yo_u_r disshe to full [e] of brede; bere not yo_u_r knyf toward yo_u_r vysage, 192 ffor _ther_yn ys peryll [e] & mykell [e] drede;

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Ne bere not your_e_ knyf towarde your_e_ vysage, 192

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Therfore let euery man beholde and ouerrede this boke: And than I doute nat but he shal se the errours of his lyfe of what condycyon that he be. in lyke wyse as he shal se in a Myrrour the fourme of his countenaunce and vysage: And if he amende suche fautes as he redeth here wherein he knoweth hymself gylty, and passe forth the resydue of his lyfe in the order of good maners than shall he haue the fruyte and auauntage wherto I haue translatyd this boke.

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

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