towne

• “Ey Sister, but I doe not like that word, some Ladyes here in towne are much acquainted wth the language of friendshipp and conversation, as they will thinke.”

  The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley

• “a Lady, obedyent ffoole in towne, and swore hir Husband was the happyest man in the world.”

  The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley

• “There were also local orchards that employed Mexicans under asimilar arrange­ment, but for some reason they never showed up in towne.”

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• “Questionlesse, you never learned the A.B. C. as now foolish Ideots do, blabbing their lessons all about the towne, which is much better apprehended by rumination; and surely (if I be not much deceyved) your Nativity happened on a Sonday morning, Sol being at that time, Lord of the ascendent, joyned with Mercurie in”

  The Decameron

• “From thence: on the South side of the towne is the maine sea, and on the North side, the valley lying betweene the foresayd mountaines, wherein the towne standeth: the said valley and towne both do grow verie narrow, insomuch that the space betweene the two cliffes of this ende of the towne is estimated not to be aboue tenne or twelue score ouer.”

  Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage

• “My mind troubled through a doubtfulness of my having incurred Sir W. Coventry's displeasure by not having waited on him since his coming to towne, which is a mighty faulte and that I can bear the fear of the bad effects of till I have been with him, which shall be to-morrow, God willing.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

• “Sunday the 25. of October, he came to a towne, which is called Vzela, and vpon Tuesday to Anaica Apalache, where the Lord of all that Countrie and”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.

• “All the goods are sold in the olde towne which is very great, and hath many suburbes round about it, and all the houses are made of Canes which they call Bambos, and bee couered with strawe [‘srawe’ in source text — KTH].”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “At his first approch he gaue manie fierce assaults to the towne, but they within hauing throughlie prouided aforehand for to defend a siege, so resisted his attempts, that within thrée daies after his comming, he ceassed to assaile the towne, meaning to vndermine the walles, which otherwise he perceiued would verie hardlie be gotten; considering the stoutnesse of them within, and withall, the naturall strength and situation of the place it selfe.”

  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First

• “Mrs. Pierce did tell her that such discourses should not trouble her, for there went as bad on other people, and particularly of herself at this end of the towne, meaning my wife, that she was crooked, which was quite false, which my wife had the wit not to acknowledge herself to be the speaker of, though she has said it twenty times.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

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