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But yet you are to note, that as you see some Willows or Palm trees bud and blossome sooner then others do, so some

The Compleat Angler 2007

But thus God having dress'd up a Saint for himselfe, would not longer permit him with us, unworthy of ye future fruites of this incomparable hopefull blossome.

The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Stephen Coleridge 1895

But yet you are to note, that as you see some Willows or Palm trees bud and blossome sooner then others do, so some _Trouts_ be in some Rivers sooner in season; and as the Holly or Oak are longer before they cast their Leaves, so are some _Trouts_ in some Rivers longer before they go out of season.

The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638

The bud of ioy, the blossome of the morne, the beame of light, whom mortal eyes admyre: what reason is it then but she should scorne, base things that to her loue too bold aspire?

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

The blossome, which my braunch of youth did beare,

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

And although the Latin tong did faire blome and blossome in L. Crassus, and M. Antonius, yet in Tullies tyme onely, and in Tullie himselfe chieflie, was the Latin tong fullie ripe, and growne to the hiest pitch of all perfection.

The Scholemaster 1570

And although the Latin tong did faire blome and blossome in _L.

The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

That he commeth to late of thys blossome to plucke.

Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530

1756: Sweet blowse, you are a beautious blossome sure.

Titus Andronicus (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

1505: Yet Fruites that blossome first, will first be ripe:

Othello (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623