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  • In the lawsuit, Dr. Ray Fernandez and his mother Ann Fernandez claim Kenedy had at least one out-of-wedlock child with Maria Rowland Goates, Ann's mother.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • Goates, having lost her two Sonnes, and thence travailed into

    The Decameron 2004

  • Beritola went aboord with Conrado and his Wife, being followed by the two young Goates and their Damme; and because her name should bee knowne to none but Conrado, and his wife onely, shee would be stiled no otherwise but the Goatherdesse.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Those Saylers knew it well, and thereupon they rowed vnto them with their boates, and lying at anker that day, they fetched as many Goates and sheepe as they had neede of: which those of the towne and of the Island well saw and beheld, yet durst not once goe foorth: so there remained no more on land but the Master and the Marchant of the said English ship.

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

  • On the East side of the Ile of Madera sixe leagues distant standeth another litle Iland called the Desert, which produceth onely Orchell, and nourisheth a great number of Goates, for the prouision of the maine Iland, which may be thirtie leagues in circuit: and the land is of great heighth where the foresayd trees growe.

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

  • Goates, the woll of thone will grow more rough and hard, and the heare of the other more tender and soft.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • He sat vpon a stone with an aporne of a Goates skinne, the hinder parts compassing his waste, and tyed behynde with a knotte, and the neck part, with the hayrie side next him, hung downe betwixt his legges.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Goates, gratefull in the Magicall arte; which stones, were wonderfully cut of a Cataglyphic explicature, and set very curiously in fine golde.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • This done from the top of the hill through a privy spout, ran a floud of the colour of Saffron, which fell upon the Goates, and changed their white haire into yellow, with a sweet odour to all them of the Theater.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Goates, for his wife Charites desired him earnestly to meddle with no other beasts, which were of more fierce and wilde nature.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

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