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... whole winter , for the roughnesse of it , is cleane taken away from shoting except it be one day amonges .xx . or one yeare amonges .xl . In Somer , for the feruent heate , a man maye saye likewyse except it be somtyme agaynst night ...
... whole winter , for the roughnesse of it , is cleane taken away from shoting except it be one day amonges .xx . or one yeare amonges .xl . In Somer , for the feruent heate , a man maye saye likewyse except it be somtyme agaynst night ...
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... whole bodye of the commune wealth shal floryshe therafter . If the yonge tree growe croked , when it is oulde , a man shal rather breake it tha streyght it . And I thinke there is no one thinge yt crokes youth more then suche vnlefull ...
... whole bodye of the commune wealth shal floryshe therafter . If the yonge tree growe croked , when it is oulde , a man shal rather breake it tha streyght it . And I thinke there is no one thinge yt crokes youth more then suche vnlefull ...
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... whole prayse of shotynge honestlye to Englysshe men , saying thus : that euery Englysshe Archer beareth vnder hys gyrdle .xxiiii . Scottes . But to lette Textor and the Scottes go : yet one thynge woulde I wysshe for the Scottes , and ...
... whole prayse of shotynge honestlye to Englysshe men , saying thus : that euery Englysshe Archer beareth vnder hys gyrdle .xxiiii . Scottes . But to lette Textor and the Scottes go : yet one thynge woulde I wysshe for the Scottes , and ...
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... whole yeare , Sprynge tyme , Somer , Faule of the leafe , and Winter : Lykewyse in one day Mornynge , Noonetyme , Afternoone , and Euentyde , bothe alter the wether , and chaunge a manes bowe wyth the strength of man also . And to knowe ...
... whole yeare , Sprynge tyme , Somer , Faule of the leafe , and Winter : Lykewyse in one day Mornynge , Noonetyme , Afternoone , and Euentyde , bothe alter the wether , and chaunge a manes bowe wyth the strength of man also . And to knowe ...
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... whole body of the Empire dyd first worke secretly and not appeare openly , vntill this melancholy vnkyndnes did so swell in mens stomaches that at length in Insburgh it brast out into a shrewd sicknes , whereof the first fit was felt to ...
... whole body of the Empire dyd first worke secretly and not appeare openly , vntill this melancholy vnkyndnes did so swell in mens stomaches that at length in Insburgh it brast out into a shrewd sicknes , whereof the first fit was felt to ...
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