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Ambassadour to the triumphant Court of the Emperour, to our so great contentment as we could possibly wish, who brought a letter from your Maiestie, which with great honour was presented vnto vs by our eunuks, the paper whereof did smell most fragrantly of camfor and ambargriese, and the incke of perfect muske; the contents whereof we haue heard very attentiuely from point to point.

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

For if it be, as I affirme, that no learning is so good, as that which teacheth and moveth to vertue, and that none can both teach and move thereto so much as Poesie, then is the conclusion manifest; that incke and paper cannot be to a more profitable purpose imployed.

Defence of Poesie 1992

And hauing made an ende of her tale, shee gaue her incke and paper, sayinge vnto her: “Now Madame I shall see at this pinche, if your harte will serue you at a neede or no.”

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Indian incke, water colours: graveing; and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tinto, and the manner of it, which is very pretty, and good things done with it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Indian incke, water colours: graveing; and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tinto, and the manner of it, which is very pretty, and good things done with it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Maiestie, which with great honour was presented vnto vs by our eunuks, the paper whereof did smell most fragrantly of camfor and ambargriese, and the incke of perfect muske; the contents whereof we haue heard very attentiuely from point to point.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584

264 _The second booke teachyng_ matter, be like pennes ouer full of incke, which will soner blotte, than make any faire letter at all.

The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

Beneath came the important postscript "Your last letter I could not read; the pen did not cast incke.

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

[Reads] "For want of incke receiue this bloudie writ.

The Spanish Tragedie Thomas Kyd 1576