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  • But "Acolastus" was merely a translation by Palsgrave from the Latin of Fullonius, performed in 1529 in Holland.

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • Prince Rupert, the Pfalzgraf, i.e. Count Palatine, was known as the Palsgrave in his day, but I have not found the title recorded early enough.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • Croke and Palsgrave were reinforced with a French duc from an impoverished but very old and honorable family.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • He was again dining in lonely splendor instead of having slapdash meals in the busy kitchen-until Masters Croke and Palsgrave returned from their leaves.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • He liked both Croke and Palsgrave; they were fond of him and did their best to make his lessons interesting, only their return meant that lessons began anew.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • "Goodman Palsgrave and Goodwife Palsgrave," he had been heard to say, "were now turned out of doors."

    London and the Kingdom - Volume II

  • Palsgrave has, in the meanwhile, sent a knight and two servants to capture the Lorelei.

    Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei Allen Wilson Porterfield

  • Apparently Palsgrave had entered into some kind of arrangement with the printer, for Vaughan writes that he 'hathe willed Pynson to sell none of them to any other person than to suche as he shall comaunde to have them, lest his proffit by teching the Frenche tonge myght be mynished by the sale of the same to suche persons as, besids hym, wern disposed to studye the sayd tongue.'

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • (Somerset's) flourishing time, came over the _Palsgrave_ to marry our

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • Indeed, had the former been a river fish, Hulvet and Palsgrave would have countenanced the supposition; but then we must have had it in the plural form, _sprottas_.

    Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 Various

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