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... true newes , but perceyuyng the wise mannes mynde and counsell , both gaue then ouer makyng of his shyppes , and left also behynde him a wonderful example for all commune wealthes to folowe that is euermore to regarde and set most by ...
... true newes , but perceyuyng the wise mannes mynde and counsell , both gaue then ouer makyng of his shyppes , and left also behynde him a wonderful example for all commune wealthes to folowe that is euermore to regarde and set most by ...
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... true in two bowes that I haue , wherof the one is quicke of cast , tricke , and trime both for pleasure and profyte : the other is a lugge slowe of cast , folowing the string , more sure for to last , then pleasaunt for to vse . Now sir ...
... true in two bowes that I haue , wherof the one is quicke of cast , tricke , and trime both for pleasure and profyte : the other is a lugge slowe of cast , folowing the string , more sure for to last , then pleasaunt for to vse . Now sir ...
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... true of them bothe , and that was this : that beside strength of bodie and good shotinge , they hadde no princelie thing in them , which saying me thinke commendes shoting wonderfullie , callinge it a princelie thinge . Furthermore howe ...
... true of them bothe , and that was this : that beside strength of bodie and good shotinge , they hadde no princelie thing in them , which saying me thinke commendes shoting wonderfullie , callinge it a princelie thinge . Furthermore howe ...
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... true ( as I haue hearde saye ) when the kynge of Englande hath ben in Fraunce , the preestes at home bicause they were archers , haue ben able to ouerthrowe all Scotlande . Agayne ther is an other thing which aboue all other doeth moue ...
... true ( as I haue hearde saye ) when the kynge of Englande hath ben in Fraunce , the preestes at home bicause they were archers , haue ben able to ouerthrowe all Scotlande . Agayne ther is an other thing which aboue all other doeth moue ...
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... true , not onely Plato Aristotle & Galen , proue by authoritie of reason , but also Herodotus and other writers , shewe by playne and euident example , as that of Cyrus , whiche after he had ouercome the Lydians , and taken their kinge ...
... true , not onely Plato Aristotle & Galen , proue by authoritie of reason , but also Herodotus and other writers , shewe by playne and euident example , as that of Cyrus , whiche after he had ouercome the Lydians , and taken their kinge ...
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