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And that the priestes do saye Masse in the remẽberaunce of sayntes/that they do sacrifice for the synnes of the quicke and the deade/and to be short that they do say masse for euery thinge/for filthie lucres sake.

A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger Peter Martyr

Or as the poet _Iuuenall_ reproached the couetous Merchant, who for lucres sake passed on no perill either by land or sea, thus:

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

So uplifted by pride at finding the insignificant crumbs I had cast upon the journalistic waters return to me after numerous days in the improved form of loaves and fishes, I wended my footsteps to the bank on which my cheque was drafted, and requested the bankers behind the counter to honour it with the equivalent in filthy lucres, which they did with obsequious alacrity.

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

Or as the poet Iuenall reproched the couetous Merchant, who for lucres sake passed on no perill either by land or sea, thus:

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

In streamlining the flood flow of green bucks of filthy lucres

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

I am wary of anyone who teaches or preaches the Word of God for what Peter in 1 Peter 5 calls filthy lucres sake - i.e. for profit.

unknown title 2009

Fayus, Lepide: Cadaver, viz. Feras & Vo - lucres abigeret: Tam beUum Interpretem Diogenes, fiitisfcio, caftigaret.

T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

Testaments, which covet so much their own private lucres, and the satisfaction and appetites of the said prelates and ordinaries, that when any of your said loving subjects do repair to any of the said courts for the probate of any Testaments, they do in such wise make so long delays, or excessively do take of them so large fees and rewards for the same as is importable for them to bear, directly against all justice, law, equity, and good conscience.

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856