This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... io. kinde, kin, relationship. Cf. Shaks. Pericles, v. I. 68, "Came of a gentle kind, and noble stock." 11. haddeholden place, i.e. had had any effect, had had their proper influence. Cf. for a like phrase Burton's Anatomy, p. 352, "They were both cured by reading when no prescribed physic would take ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... io. kinde, kin, relationship. Cf. Shaks. Pericles, v. I. 68, "Came of a gentle kind, and noble stock." 11. haddeholden place, i.e. had had any effect, had had their proper influence. Cf. for a like phrase Burton's Anatomy, p. 352, "They were both cured by reading when no prescribed physic would take place" (i.e. have any effect). And p. 359, "When this last engine would take no place (have no influence) they left him to his own ways." 15. binden. This is the Old English form of the plural number. 17. bereue. For the use of this verb not followed as it commonly is by the preposition of, cf. Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Prologue, 475, "But Age alias that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith." 20. entreate, treat of. Cf. Lyly's Euphues, p. 53, "For me to intreat of the one, being a novise, I may well make you weary." 24. a noble manne and a mightie. This order of adjectives was not uncommon in Old English. Cf. Luke xxiii. 50, "A good man and a just." 28. kinge Henrye his bloode, i. e. King Henry's blood. A common mistake in Elizabethan English. See 5. 2. 29. a goodlye Prince, i. e. Edward the Lancastrian Prince of Wales, murdered by the retainers of Edward IV. after the battle of Tewkesbury. P. 5, line 1. preuente=to anticipate. Cf. Bacon's Advancement (W. Aldis Wright), p. 261, "Man is not to prevent his time." 3. Wakefielde. The battle was fought 31 Dec. 1460. 5. states=princes. Shaks. King John, II. 1. 395, "How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?" 6. stomacke, temper, courage. Cf. Bp Pilkington's Works, p. 59, "With such words of fear and power must all stubborn stomachs be pulled down." 18. at the lest wise. We should now say at least. 19. fautye, guilty, in fault. Cf. Golden Boke, Let. 6, "O how sorowfull am I, for...
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