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The place for the fresshe grienesse and merie shewe, the Greques name Paradisos.
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And when they come together to drinke and make merie, they sprinckle parte of their drinke vpon the image which is aboue the masters head: afterward vpon other images in order: then goeth a seruant out of the house with a cuppe full of drinke sprinckling it thrise towards the South, and bowing his knee at euery time: and this is done for the honour of the fire.
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But before I proceede any further I thinke it not amisse to tell a merie tale, which was the originall and ground of this hellish opinion: namely that a ship of certaine strangers departing from Island, vnder full saile, a most swift pace, going diectly on her course, met with another ship sailing against winde
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And when they come together to drinke and make merie, they sprinckle parte of their drinke vpon the image which is aboue the masters head: afterward vpon other images in order: then goeth a seruant out of the house with a cuppe full of drinke sprinckling it thrise towards the South, and bowing his knee at euery time: and this is done for the honour of the fire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But before I proceede any further I thinke it not amisse to tell a merie tale, which was the originall and ground of this hellish opinion: namely that a ship of certaine strangers departing from Island, vnder full saile, a most swift pace, going diectly on her course, met with another ship sailing against winde
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For when the day of affliction and distresse shal come, others shal weepe, and be sad, but thou shalt be merie and plenteous.
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Pleasaunt, and merie Comedie, intytuled _Gammer Gurton's Needle_. '
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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_Florio, His Firste Frutes: which yeelde familiar speech, merie Proverbes, wittie Sentences, and golden sayings.
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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Skelton's "Magnyfycence," which he calls "a goodly interlude and a merie," is, in reality, a morality play as well as an interlude, and marks the opening of the modern drama in England.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Or thy childrens father in Lawe, shall spoile and spende with a merie harte, that whiche thou haste long tera -
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