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Therefore, that I may not be tedious to the reader with long circumstances, I will come to the rehearsing of those things which that railing Germane hath heaped vp in his leud pasquill: whom also
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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All which this venemous pasquill, with eloquent railing and wittie slaunder hath set out at the full.
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All which this venemous pasquill, with eloquent railing and wittie slaunder hath set out at the full.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Therefore, that I may not be tedious to the reader with long circumstances, I will come to the rehearsing of those things which that railing Germane hath heaped vp in his leud pasquill: whom also
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Knox, "when she had read within a day or two she delivered it to the proud prelate, Beatoun, Bishop of Glasgow, and said in mockage, 'Please you, my lord, to read a pasquill?'"
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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Cardinall, -- [Cardinal Mazarin died March 9th, 1661.] -- and will not suffer one pasquill to come forth against him; and that he acts by what directions he received from him before his death.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 20: January/February 1662-63 Samuel Pepys 1668
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All which this venemous pasquill, with eloquent railing and wittie slaunder hath set out at the full.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Island, which preach not to their people once in two yeres, as it is read in the former edition of this pasquill, which notwithstanding the latter edition doth refute: saying that the sayd Pastours vse to preach but fiue times in an whole yeere which two, how well they agree together, let the reader be iudge, seeing it is manifest that the authour himselfe, presently after the first edition, had scarse seene Island.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Good God! whosoeuer shall view this cartlode of slanders (for we haue mentioned the least part thereof, because I was loth to lose my labour, or, as the wise man sayth, to answere a foole according to his foolishnesse, whereas in his rimes there is not one word without a reproch) will he not iudge the authour of this pasquill to haue bene a most lewde man, yea the very drosse of mankinde, without pietie, without humanitie?
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Historiographer obiecteth that there be many Pastours in Island, which preach not to their people once in two yeres, as it is read in the former edition of this pasquill, which notwithstanding the latter edition doth refute: saying that the sayd Pastours vse to preach but fiue times in an whole yeere which two, how well they agree together, let the reader be iudge, seeing it is manifest that the authour himselfe, presently after the first edition, had scarse seene Island.
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