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"Use the interlocking grup and keep the staunce a wee bit open and slow back, and dinna press or sway the heid and keep yer e'e on the ba '."
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¶ Or he may begyn at the nature of the tyme that is than/or at som other cyrcum [-] staunce of his mater/as Tully taketh the begynnynge of his oracion for Celius at the tyme/this wise.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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Commutatiue & Distributiue/for in two maners is our medlynge with other men/eyther in thynges of our sub - staunce & wares/or in gentyll and cyuyle conuersacion.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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