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... olde and that euerye house shoulde haue a bowe , and .xl . shaftes ready for all nedes , the omittinge of whiche lawe ( sayth Leo ) amonges the youthe , hath ben the onely occasion why the Romaynes lost a great dele of their empire ...
... olde and that euerye house shoulde haue a bowe , and .xl . shaftes ready for all nedes , the omittinge of whiche lawe ( sayth Leo ) amonges the youthe , hath ben the onely occasion why the Romaynes lost a great dele of their empire ...
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... olde , which thing can not be done mightelye when they be men , excepte they learne it perfitelye when they be boyes . And therfore shotinge of all pastymes is moost fitte to be vsed in childhode : bycause it is an imitation of moost ...
... olde , which thing can not be done mightelye when they be men , excepte they learne it perfitelye when they be boyes . And therfore shotinge of all pastymes is moost fitte to be vsed in childhode : bycause it is an imitation of moost ...
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... olde Nymphod . greke Historiographer write , of one Sesostris kinge of Egypte , whiche storie because it is somewhat longe , and very lyke in al poyntes to the other and also you do well ynoughe remembre it , seynge you read it so ...
... olde Nymphod . greke Historiographer write , of one Sesostris kinge of Egypte , whiche storie because it is somewhat longe , and very lyke in al poyntes to the other and also you do well ynoughe remembre it , seynge you read it so ...
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... olde Romanes and what meanes noble captaynes and Emperou [ r ] s made , to haue it encrease amonge them , and what hurte came by the decaye of it , these wordes , of Leo the emperour , which in a maner I haue rehersed woorde for woorde ...
... olde Romanes and what meanes noble captaynes and Emperou [ r ] s made , to haue it encrease amonge them , and what hurte came by the decaye of it , these wordes , of Leo the emperour , which in a maner I haue rehersed woorde for woorde ...
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... olde monumētes of Englande , and in seking for that purpose , he marked this of shootynge in an excedyng olde cronicle , the which had no name , that what tyme as the Saxons came first into this realme in kyng Vortigers dayes , whe they ...
... olde monumētes of Englande , and in seking for that purpose , he marked this of shootynge in an excedyng olde cronicle , the which had no name , that what tyme as the Saxons came first into this realme in kyng Vortigers dayes , whe they ...
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