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This conception of yours, doth discover our offence, which a Fathers pity may easily pardon in vou: but I being his servant and vassall, shall be punished both for your sinne and mine, because he will have no mercy on me.
The Decameron 2004
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Vernueil, where he made this ordinance, that no man should trouble the vassall or tenant, as we may call them, for his lords debt.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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He several times offered very easy terms to Sir John; and particularly he made one overture of quitting all his pretentions to that estate, on condition of submitting to be the Earl's vassall for the greatest part of it, and paying him two thousand pounds sterling, which he had then by him in ready money; but the expensive gayety of Sir
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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Molloua which was vassall vnto another great King named by them Olata Ouae
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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a vassall suited as ill with his vanity, which occasioned that and several other proposals to be refused.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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1944: Thou, that art like enough, through vassall Feare,
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1573: Bowes not his vassall head, and strooken blinde,
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