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Bvt as the bad and illawdable parts of all estates and degrees were taxed by the Poets in one sort or an other, and those of great Princes by
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Bvt when these maner of solitary speaches and recitals of rebuke, vttered by the rurall gods out of bushes and briers, seemed not to the finer heads sufficiently perswasiue, nor so popular as if it were reduced into action of many persons, or by many voyces liuely represented to the eare and eye, so as a man might thinke it were euen now a doing.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Bvt before there had bene yet any precise obseruation made of figuratiue speeches, the first learned artificers of language considered that the bewtie and good grace of vtterance rested in no many pointes: and whatsoeuer transgressed those lymits, they counted it for vitious; and thereupon did set downe a manner of regiment in all speech generally to be obserued, consisting in sixe pointes.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Bvt as it hath bene alwayes reputed a great fault to vse figuratiue speaches foolishly and indiscretly, so is it esteemed no lesse an imperfection in mans vtterance, to haue none vse of figure at all, specially in our writing and speaches publike, making them but as our ordinary talke, then which nothing can be more vnsauourie and farre from all ciuilitie.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Bvt because in those dayes when the Poets first taxed by _Satyre_ and
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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We had also as guests Col. Sumner and wife, Bvt.Col. Parnell and family, Mr. Geo.
Sixty Years of California Song Margaret Blake Alverson 1879
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Bvt by what way say they or think ye it possible that they can com to these vnlawful cõuentiõs?
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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Bvt who dare take vpon him to punish them, if no man can be sure to be free from their vnnaturall inuasiones?
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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Bvt I pray you likewise forget not to tell what are the Deuilles rudimentes.
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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Bvt I thinke it very strange, that God should permit anie man-kynde (since they beare his owne Image) to fall in so grosse and filthie a defection.
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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