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He has hitherto appeared as good a Member, as any Weever had in Congress.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 August 1777 1963
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Weever complains of the practice, and says, "it could be wished that walking in the middle isle of _Paules_ might be forborne in the time of diuine seruice."
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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The other out of Mr. _Weever_ his Funeral Monuments in the Parish of
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Weever, in "Funeral Monuments," gives the epitaph:
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[3] At the time of Stow's survey the church contained many brasses and monuments which have disappeared; but a tolerably complete account of them may be obtained by adding the descriptions supplied by Weever ( "Funeral Monuments") and Gough
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We have here an evident reference to this effigy, and I think that Weever probably used
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Weever, in 1601, in his 'Mirror of Martyrs,' plainly refers to the masterly speech in the Forum at Caaesar's funeral which Shakespeare put into Antony's mouth.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Weever, Thomas: his eulogy of the poet, 179 _n_ allusion in his 'Mirror of Martyrs' to Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral, 211
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Weever, in his Discourse of Funeral Monuments, says rightly,
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Weever family, whose heiress married the ancestor of Sir J. Stanley.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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