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Next day I went to Cochen Well 10 mile, mostly good open way except a hill or two wch were steep and stony, tho 'this was the Longer way and about, yet by reason of ye former raines it was the safest, for ye Lower way was run over by the waters wch are Land flouds from the swelling Brookes, wch are up in a few hours and are sunck in the same tyme againe – the wayes were somewhat Dirty.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

They seldome vse to shoo their horse, vnlesse they ride In post vpon the frozen flouds, then cause they shall not slide, He sets a slender calke, and so he rides his way.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The flouds and fields of Thessalie [A] must giue place to this.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

But because it is a crime unto me to say so, and to give no example thereof, know ye, that if you spoyle and cut the haire of any woman or deprive her of the colour of her face, though shee were never so excellent in beauty, though shee were throwne downe from heaven, sprung of the Seas, nourished of the flouds, though shee were

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

¶ In this yeare, and vpon the twelfth day of October, were thrée flouds in the Thames, the one following vpon the other, & no ebbing betweene: which thing no man then liuing could remember the like to be seene.

Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

_She_ bountious gives to rivers flouds and springs,

The Bride Samuel Rowlands

That lately turn'd your breaths to flouds of gold;

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

Zeale is as strong as death, hot as the coales of Juniper; flouds of many waters cannot quench it.

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

This Causes Great floods, and the Lower Grounds are overwhelm'd for a season after such raines, so that had I not put on and gotten beyond Lanston that day there would have been noe moveing for me till the flouds wch hourly encreased were run off.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

_Hee hath founded the earth upon the seas, and established it upon the flouds.

The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643