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  • Appul-tre Peere-tre Hasyl Note Bannenote-tre Fygge; and this name it still holds in the West of England.

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • Ther hath be fownd alf < of the Ground ... more pages: vi 142 144 145 Margate - Page 137Margate lyith in S. John's Paroche yn Thanet a v. Myles Upward fro Reculver, and there is aV triage and a Peere for ohyppes, but now fore decayed. ...

    The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary: Published from the Original MS. in the Bodleian ... 1769

  • One of the Ships did Her the favour to flanck upon the house where the Queene lay, which was just before the Peere; and before She was out of Her bed, the Cannon bullets whistled so loud about her, (which Musicke you may easily believe was not very pleasing to Her) that all the company pressed Her earnestly to goe out of the house, their Cannon having totally beaten downe all the neighbouring houses, and two Cannon bullets falling from the top to the bottome of the house where She was; so that (clothed as She could) She went on foot some little distance out of the Towne, under the shelter of a

    Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

  • 1958: What Peere hath beene suborn'd, to grate on you,

    Henry IV, Part Two (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • 3028: And heauen (consigning to my good intents) 3029: No Prince, nor Peere, shall haue iust cause to say,

    Henry IV, Part Two (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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