Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth: Preface, containing an account of the sources of the work. Biographical memoir. Appendix. Letters. Orationes. Exercises in the French language. Poetry |
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Page lxxvi - Host. Than damn him to that desperate course of life. " Lov. Call you that desperate, which by a line Of institution, from our ancestors, Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession, for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind Or manners, more to the harmony of nature,...
Page xcvi - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
Page cccxl - A Concordance, that is to saie, a Worke, wherein by the Ordre of the Letters of the ABC ye maie redely finde any Worde conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it is there expressed or mencioned.
Page xxxvi - ... as it were a sage juggement towardes every person that repayreth to his grace ; and as it semyth to me, thankes be to our Lord, his grace encresith well in the ayer that he ys in. And albeyt a litell his graces flesche decayeth, yet he shotyth owt in length, and wexith ferme and stiff, and can stedfastly stond, and wold avaunce hymself to move and go if they would...
Page cxcix - The last words of his pangs were these : ' I am faint, Lord, have mercy upon me, and take my spirit.
Page 129 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page xcvi - Your Majesty is God's vicegerent, and Christ's vicar within your own dominions, and to see, with your predecessor Josiah, God truly worshipped, and idolatry destroyed ; the tyranny of the bishops of Rome banished from your subjects; and images removed.
Page 100 - ... quisque ingenio, negotiis omnibus omissis, totum se in cognitione et scientia collocaret. Non est ita : nam et solitudinem fugeret, et socium studii quaereret : tum docere, tum discere vellet, tum audire, tum dicere.
Page lxxi - If cockering mothers proffer him money to purchase their sons an exemption from his rod, (to live as it were in a peculiar, out of their master's jurisdiction) with disdain he refuseth it, and scorns the late custom in some places of commuting whipping into money, and ransoming boys from the rod at a set price.
Page lv - Tye, doctor in musyke, and one of the Gentylmen of hys graces moste honourable Chappell, with notes to eche chapter to synge and also to play upon the Lute, very necessarye for studentes after theyr studye to fyle theyr wyttes, and...