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  • They enter into the turret by a gate of syluer, and is on euery syde besette with vesselles full of balme.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Micel hadde henri k {ing} gadered gold ⁊ syluer. ⁊ na god ne dide me for his saule thar {} of.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • Or if the question were demanded, if a Christian, with good conscience may defraude, steale or deceiue: and answer were made that so he might by the example of the Israelites, who at Goddes commandement, deceiued the Egyptians, and spoiled them of their garmentes, golde and syluer.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878

  • Or if the question were demanded, if a Christian, with good conscience may defraude, steale or deceiue: and answer were made that so he might by the example of the Israelites, who at Goddes commandement, deceiued the Egyptians, and spoiled them of their garmentes, golde and syluer.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874

  • Off syluer langage _th_e greate ryches who will [e] yt haue, my child, dowtles 404

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • From thens we wêt vndre the crowdes, whiche is nat withowt hys chaplaynes, & there we sawe the brayne panne of that holy martyr whiche was thraste quyte thorow, all the other was coueryd with syluer, the ouerparte of the brayne panne was bare to be kyssyd, and there with all is seth forthe a certayn leden table hauynge grauyd in hym a tytle of saynte Thomas of Acrese.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • We sawe ther saynt Thomas crosse staffe, ther was seê also a rede ouerlayed with syluer, it was but of a smalle wyght, vnwrought, nor no longer then wold retch vnto a mans mydgle.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • I thynke as touchyng the holy vestmentes, & the syluer plate of the temple ther ought to be gyuyn, to the solempne seruys, hys dygnyte and comlynes, I wyll also that the buyldyng of the churche shall haue hys maiesty decent and

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • _ Ye Menedemus if you loke within you | | wyll say that it is a seate mete for sayntes, all thynges be so bright in gold, syluer, and precyous stones.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • _ After thys to come to owre purpose, the Supprioure shewyed to me ymages of gold and syluer, and sayd, thes be pure gold, and thes be syluer and gyltyd, he told the pryce of euery one of thaym, and the patrone.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

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