fewe

• A patrico solemnizes their marriages CI] These are commonly women who ask assistance, feigning that they have lost their property by fire CJ] A woman who cohabits with an upright man_, and professes to sell thread, &c CK] "These antem mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: for antem_, in their language is a churche--" &c.; Harman_. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
• The proofe of vertue, cannot be founde in men whiche are chosen of newe, and whiche never afore have ben chosen, and of these are founde either fewe or none, in the ordinaunce that of newe is ordeined. —  Machiavelli, Volume I
• In Africk, is named (lettyng stande thesame auncient Egipt) Massinissa, Jugurta, and those Capitaines, whiche of the Carthaginens common weale were nourished, whom also in respecte to those of Europe, are moste fewe: bicause in Europe, be excellente men without nomber, and so many more should be, if together with those should bee named the other, that be through the malignitie of time extincte: for that the worlde hath been moste vertuous, where hath been moste states, whiche have favoured vertue of necessitie, or for other humaine passion. —  Machiavelli, Volume I
• And at last by his continuall endeauour and long exercise therein, he grewe to bee such an Oratour and Poet, as fewe were in that age liuing, by reason whereof hee grew in fauour with Richard then King of England, and vndertooke that long voyage with him into Palestina and Syria against the Turkes. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
• Therefore the Norwayes with their company peopled all the habitable parts of Island now occupied by them for the space of 60. yeeres or thereabout but they remayned Ethnickes almost 100. yeres, except a very fewe which were baptised in Norwaie. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01

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