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Movements from the "Meane Mass" of John Taverner and some of the Proper chants for Trinity Sunday provided a framework like that of a Mass.
Folger's music presentation is fit for King Henry's court Charles Downey 2010
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Hereafter I perhaps of other things will write To thee and other of my friends, which I shall see with sight: And other stuffe besides, which true report shall tell, Meane while I end my louing lines, and bid thee now farewell.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It seems fitting that a poem so much concerned with recounting the past should end by emphasizing the present and future -- what Moulsworth nicely calls "the Meane tyme"; l.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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Butt in the Meane tyme this must be my care of knittinge here a fourth knott to beware
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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Meane season while I was fed with dainty morsels, I gathered together my flesh, my skin waxed soft, my haire began to shine, and was gallant on every part, but such faire and comely shape of my body, was cause of my dishonour, for the Baker and Cooke marvelled to see me so slick and fine, considering I did eate no hay at all.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Babes bloudie hands may not be clensd, the face of golden Meane.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Meane you the men, or their mindes? be the men good, and their mindes bad? speake for the men (for you are one) and I will doubt of your minde: Mislike you the language?
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Meane-while I wish to thee, as of me thou shalt deserve, and wish of thee as I knowe of thee I have deserved.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Meane men haue eies to see, and cause to lament, and occasion to complaine of thies miseries: but other haue authoritie to remedie them, and will do so to, whan God shall think time fitte.
The Scholemaster 1870
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Meane, speaking thick through a big mouthful of cream-cake.
The Other Girls 1865
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