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  • The fyfte an _Enthimeme_, whyche is a sentence of contraries: as if it be a great praise to please good men, surely to please euyl men it is a greate shame.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • ¶ Loue thyn enmye/& do good for euyl to hym in recompence.

    A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

  • Wherfore desyre ye to go in vyle & vnshapely vesture. that wanton & dissolute persones may rather be prouoked to scorne & laughe at you than to thynke euyl or desyre you/for they say not trouthe that do ensure themself with a glorye to kepe chastyte in a costely or ony shapely vesture

    A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

  • Gospell, truely my Lorde, I haue readde the Newe Testament and the Olde, and all the Epistles and the Gospels, and among them all I coulde neuer finde any euyl Epistle, or any euyl Gospel: but if your Lordship wil shewe me the good Epistle and the good Gospell, and the euyll Epistle and the euyll Gospel, then I shall preache the good, and omyt the euyl.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Neuerthelesse, it apperteyneth to the discipline of the Churche, that enquirie be made of euyl ministres, and that they be accused by those that haue knowledge of their offences: and finally, beyng founde gyltie by iust iudgement, be deposed.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • All sparowes flesshe is euyl/and their egges also.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • They be lyght fyngerd and vse pyking, they have litle maner and euyl loggyng, and yet they be pleasant daunsers.

    Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

  • But that see cost I refused and gladely dyd fle from it, as from a place that is | | noted and more euyl spoken of it, for robbyng, stelynge, and vntrue dealynge, then is of dangerouse ioperdy in the see, be that hyll Malea wher many shyppes be drowned & vtterly destroyed for euer.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • _ I tary | | to knowe what euyl chaunse yow wyll speke of.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • And to speake a worde for all, me thynket it is a better syght to beholde a temple rychely adourned, as ther be some with bare wolles, fylthy and euyl fauorde, more mete for stables to put horses then churches for Chrysten people.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

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