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Yet Nature hath given us a sufficient demonstration, in creating our bodies more soft and delicate, yea, and our hearts timorous, fearefull, benigne and compassionable, our strength feeble, our voyces pleasing, and the motion of our members sweetly plyant: all which are apparant testimonies, that wee have neede of others government.

The Decameron 2004

Now albeit he found her plyant enough, to gaine physicke for her owne griefe, as soone as his; yet the meanes and manner were (as yet) quite out of all apprehension.

The Decameron 2004

Members of our Bodies plyant, and flexible; and for the better obtaining these Effects, the following Rules are to be Observed.

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

Beat it exceeding well with a large woodden Mallet, till you may easily pluck it all in pieces, severing every flake from other, and every one of them in it so being loose, spungy and limber, as the whole fish must be, and plyant like a glove, which will be in less then an hour.

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634

But, this is yet more unnatural in the female Sex, which being of a fbfter mold, is more plyant and yielding to the impreffions of pity, and by this ftrength of fancy, re - doubles the horrour of any fad obje&.

The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts 1705

And lastly, the _viburnum_, or way-faring-tree, growing also plentifully in every corner, makes pins for the yoaks of oxen; and superstitious people think, that it protects their cattel from being bewitch’d and us’d to plant the shrub about their stalls; ’tis certainly the most plyant and best bands to fagot with.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

To doe as ano - ther wills him, to be plyant, to be ready at hand Ar. 6-nci pc (iuU ox obeiilada, fyuzheada.

Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. 1707