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See (sayd _Faire-fortune_, to her soule shapt _Foe_) How on the scourge that beates against the Ile Of _Flores_, whence they curst oblations growe, A winde-taught capring ship which ayre beguiles,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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How now Thersites? what lost in the Labyrinth of thy furie? shall the Elephant Aiax carry it thus? he beates me, and I raile at him: O worthy satisfaction, would it were otherwise: that I could beate him, whilst hee raild at mee:
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Which if they breake, he beates them with his wand;
The Affectionate Shepherd Richard Barnfield 1600
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_Enter Falstaffe disguised like an old woman, and misteris Page with him, Ford beates him, and hee runnes away.
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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2598: This her minde beates upon; other objects that are
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1795: Saue what beates there, Filliall ingratitude,
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2115: That beates vpon the high shore of this World:
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1605: And with a Martiall scorne, with one hand beates
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1465: When thy poore hart beates without ragious beating,
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703: Whose rocky shore beates backe the enuious siedge
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