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Examples
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Thei kepe suche precise scilence in the night, through out their campe: that thei wil rather suffre such as they haue taken prisoners, to run their waie, then to make any sturre.
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A dere God, what love hadde he to his subjettes, whan he that nevere trespaced, wolde for trespassours suffre dethe!
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On the other parte, thei suffre their heare to growe at lengthe like our women: whiche thei deuide into two tresses, or braudes, and bryng aboute to fasten behinde their eares.
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They suffre theyr heares to growe and couer them with prety forked cappes somwhat mytrelyke.
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And as for ioye or sorowe that the soule should suffre aftre this life, thei denied.
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Thei occupie no belles, nor suffre not the Christianes that dwelle among them to do.
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Contrariwyse he said to the Christians thei ware very fonde to beleue that Iesus, so dierly beloued of God, and borne of a virgine, would suffre those vilanies and tormentes of the Iewes.
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God, and voyde of all earthly corruption: had there no sepulchre in very diede, for that he being a spirituall body conceiued by the breathe of the holy ghost coulde not suffre, but should come againe to be iudge of the Gentiles: This saieth Segonius, and many other thinges sounding to like effecte: whiche the Mahometeines are wonte to throwe out against the Christians, bothe foolisshely and wickedly.
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For bothe the manne and the women taken in adultery, suffre death by the lawe.
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It is compted a greate offence emong them to suffre drincke, or a piece of meate to be loste.
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