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  • Such were his vowes and protestations, as in the end the ghostly Father gave him both the Purse and Girdle: then after he had preached, and severely conjured him, never more to vexe her with any gifts at all, and he binding himselfe thereto by a solemne promise, he gave him license to depart.

    The Decameron 2004

  • More cruell art thou then any savage Beast; thus to vexe and torment mee in such mercilesse manner.

    The Decameron 2004

  • When she saw that he offered her no other violence, but gave her such vaunting and reproachfull speeches, holding still the young man before her face, meerely vexe and despight her: shee began to take heart, and thus replied.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But she, not altring a jote from her former disposition, but rather farre more froward and tempestuous: delighted to vexe and crosse him, doing every thing quite contrary to the order appointed.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Whereupon the multitude of the Sarazens, seeing that the Christian power ioyned themselves boldly, close by them even face to face in a lodging hard by them, the very next night at midnight, remooued their tents, and pitched them more then a mile off, that they might the next morning bee aduised whether they should returne to Ascalon, or by often assaults vexe the citizens of Iaphet.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • We shall here liue and rest at home quietly with our friends, and acquaintance: but hee in the meane time labouring to keepe the ignorant and vnruly Mariners in good order and obedience, with howe many cares shall hee trouble and vexe himselfe? with how many troubles shall he breake himselfe? and howe many disquietings shall hee bee forced to sustaine?

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Pardon mee that I binde and vexe my selfe more then a willow Garland.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Let calamitie be the exercise, but not the ouerthrow or my vertue; let their power preuaile, but preuaile not to destruction; let my greatnesse be their pray; let my paine bee the sweetnesse of there reuenge: let them, (if so it seeme good vnto thee) vexe me with more and more punishment.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • By his last will, he ordeined himselfe to be interred vpon the sea shore, that the waues and surges might beate and vexe his dead carcas.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Wake when thou would'st wake, feare nought, vexe for nought, 140

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

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