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If any merchant come vnto them, he must prouide things necessary for him, with whom he is first of all enterteined, all the time of his abode among them.
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Whereupon he is to prouide for all his fathers wiues, because they are part of his inheritance aswel as his fathers possessions.
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The poorer sort prouide themselues of such necessaries, for the exchange of rams, and of other beasts skins.
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Whatsoeuer mischiefe they entend to practise against a man they keepe it wonderfully secrete so that he may by no meanes prouide for himselfe, nor find a remedie against their conspiracies.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Then wee our selues were conducted vnto another hoste, who was appointed to prouide vs houseroome, victualles, and horses.
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Shamaki againe, where I remained vntill the sixt of October, to prouide camels, horses, and other necessaries for my sayd intended iourney.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And farther they desire that you will prouide for as much tarre as you may, for heere wee haue small store, but when the time commeth that it shoulde be made, I will prouide as much as I can here, that it may bee sent downe when the Nasade commeth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And if restitution be not made by such letters, the king our soueraigne lord by the aduise of his counsel shal prouide to the partie grieued his couenable remedy, according as the case requireth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now if there be any well-disposed man, who pitying the need and folly of these beggers, releaseth them of one sonne, and doth for Gods sake by some meanes prouide for him in another countrey: doth the begger therefore (who together with his sonne being ready to die for hunger and pouerty, yeeldeth and committeth his sonne into the hands of a mercifull man) make lesse account of his sonne then of his dogge?
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Nowe therefore I beseech you to prouide mee some portion of land in the islands, whereby I may honestly liue.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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