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Amarigo, because he would cut off (at one and the same time) not onely the lives of the two poore Lovers, but their childes also; as
The Decameron 2004
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Violenta, lesse respecting her owne life, then she did the childes; forgot her solemne promise made to Pedro, and discovered all.
The Decameron 2004
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Neyther dyd it sieme them iuste, that he that gaue life to the childe, should lose his life for the childes death, but rather be put to continual sorowe, and to be pyned with the repentance of the diede, that other myght ther by the withdrawen from the like wyckednes.
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Fiuethly, weting his thumbe in the holie ointement, he maketh therewith a Crosse on the childes foreheade.
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Nicholetta the daughter, lodged by her selfe, and the father and mother in the third, and because she was to give the child sucke in the night time, the radle (wherein it lay) stood close by their beds side, because the childes crying or any other occasion concerning it, should not disquiet the Gentlemen.
The Decameron 2004
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So, stepping on a little further, she found the childes Cradle, and laid her selfe downe by Adriano, thinking shee had gone right to her Husband.
The Decameron 2004
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Then comming backe from the images, he taketh a paire of sheares and clippeth the yong and tender haires of the childes head in three or foure places, and then deliuereth the childe, whereunto euery of the Godfathers and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And truely the condicion of the Noursse, and nature of the milke, disposeth almost the greater part of the childes condition, whiche
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Whereby not manie yéeres after, as Gilbert the gouernour, by Rafe the childes coosine germane, was slaine; the dukedome anon, by murther and fighting among themselues was sore troubled in all parts.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Right Honorable, I feare me I have detained your Honors too long with so homelie entertainment, yet being the best the meanenes of my skill can affoorde; which intending as my childes christening-banquet, heereunto I presumed to invite your Honors: but I hope what was saide at you Honors first comming (I meane in the beginning of my Epistle) shall serve for a finall excuse.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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